Re: Internet over powerlines.
I need some of these, does anyone know if they are still available from Office works? On 17/10/2010, at 6:03 PM, Susan Hastings wrote: I bought a set from Officeworks, the best quality set they had. They work brilliantly. Sent from my iPad On 17/10/2010, at 5:01 PM, McCallum Malcolm doc...@westnet.com.au wrote: I have been looking at Netgears xavb2001 with great interest . I wonder if anyone has any experience of using this equipment. I cannot find anyone selling it in Perth and getting hold of it seems difficult as in ES they are going like hot cakes. Mac -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Sharing iTunes library
He wants them all to share the Library on the same mac not across a network. I have my iMac setup like this. Put a folder with the music into Users/Shared and then under each login in iTunes preferences change the location of the Library to this folder. To make sure I had no issues with permissions I used Sandbox to create an ACL which enforces everybody has full control over all files in this directory no matter who creates them but this is probably unnecessary. On 16/10/2010, at 5:24 PM, Tim Law wrote: Hello Stuart. There must be something very wrong with your setup, sorry I can't help fix it. I have just checked on my home networks, some running 10.5 and some 10.6, both with itunes 10. Under iTunes Preferences, I clicked on the Sharing tab and clicked the appropriate buttons. Then it all just worked and I am now listening to Abba streaming through from my sons computer. Given he is 17 and I am somewhat older, this is quite remarkable for more than just technological perspective. :-) For this not to work so easily, seems to me you have something dreadful happening. I hope it can be fixed. Regards Tim On 16/10/2010, at 2:42 PM, bred...@highway1.biz wrote: I use iTunes connected to a PA system to have music in my waiting room. The iTunes library is on my logon. How do I share the library with all other users of the iMac? Home Sharing does not enable you to share libraries. Stuart Breden -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
iPhone 4 V 3GS
I've lived with an iPhone 3G for a year or 2 now, love it but it's getting slow. Considering buying a new unlocked phone. Apple Store has the 3GS at $719, iPhone4 at $859. Seems a bit of a no brainer to get the 4. Has anyone owned both and got an opinion about just how much better the 4 is? I've looked up comparisons on the net but it's all just specs which I confess wash over me. What's the real life feeling of the 2? Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: disk repair
Other people have already posted about how to boot from the DVD. Sometimes just doing a safe boot is enough. Turn your Mac off, hold down shift and turn it on again while holding shift till you see the spinning circle at which point you can let go. When it gets to the login screen, click back then restart. Safe Boot does disk repair and empties caches, fixes a lot of stuff and easier than booting off the DVD. On 28/09/2010, at 6:31 AM, Janis Lynn wrote: Hi All Since upgrading to Snow Leopard my macbook has trouble on start up. I lose my desk top and only screen saver appears. After several restarts it comes back. I used disk utility and it said I need to do a disk repair. Can anyone recommend a free 3rd party disk repair app? I downloaded applejack? Thanks. Janis -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
For Sale - Macbook Pro 15
With great regret I post this for sale. It's my wife's and she wants an iPad and new iPhone. We can't afford both without selling something. It's the previous model, core 2 duo 2.66 Ghz, 4 Gig Ram, 320 Gig Hard Drive. Barely used and never outside the home so it's pretty much pristine. It was the mid-range then, it's roughly equivalent to the base model now in spec which goes for $2200. Sell for $1750. Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: browsers
I haven't experienced the beach ball with Safari since I turned off the stupid top sites. All that seems to do is fill up with thumbnails and gradually render the whole thing unusable. On 25/09/2010, at 10:24 AM, Edward wrote: Good morning Yesterday I changed browser from Safari to Chrome. This is not a suck it and see temporary alternative. These are the bells of freedom type of change. I have been an avid user of Safari for years and, on and off, tried Camino and Opera and Shiira and Flock and OmniWeb as well as Firefox. I started to feel frustrated with Safari a few months back, because of the drag on the CPU and other sluggishness. After each Safari update I thought this is the one that will free it up and give it the speed its purported to have. But it seems to get slower and command more processor power and RAM. So I gave Firefox another go for a couple of weeks and it seemed faster with less drag on the system, but its bloated with add-ons and other stuff. Then I gave Chrome another go, spent time setting it up nicely with some extensions and having a serious go at Google's offering as contender for my main browser. The longer I used Chrome the more I liked it. It seems to render pages faster than the other browsers and there is far less drag on the CPU. The interface is clean and stripped down, the add-ons sit in the tool bar and are less obtrusive than in Firefox. The spinning rainbow disc has not appeared in my browsing life since Chrome - it was a never ending fact of life with Safari. So, I managed to break away from the Safari habit and feel a sense of freedom with Google's Chrome. I wonder what WAMUG users have to say about browsers these days? Best wishes, Edward -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
MacSpeech Dictate re-branded and updated
I know there has been some interest in voice recognition software here. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/09/macspeech-dictate-gets-major-overhaul-new-name.ars?utm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=rss -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Info for Entourage Users - worth reading.
I heartily endorse this attitude. I explain the monolithic database problem particularly with reference to how it uses up space in TIme Machine Backups. On 14/09/2010, at 7:38 AM, Paul K wrote: It's my life mission to remove every single install of Entourage from client machines at work. For the above reasons and more. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Samsung CLP-315
Mail can be fflaky on the iPhone, doubt it's anything to do with this particular email. I don't store mail on my iPhone so when this has happened to me I remove the account and set it up again, which may not be useful to you if you refer to mail on your phone. On 10/09/2010, at 3:45 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: I don't seem to be able to delete this email on my iPhone4, tried 20 times goes into trash, fresh copy below. Even tried swipe and delete. What is needed? No other email has done this. Brian Sent from my iPhone On 09/09/2010, at 9:43, Daniel Kerr dan...@macwizardry.com.au wrote: Hi Ray I think it was meant more that I sold it to him a long time ago, and it's still going strong :o) That was my take on it anyway. Either that, or I just hide my age well :o) hehehe. (And thanks Glen) :O) Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: dan...@macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 9/9/10 8:57 AM, Ray Forma r...@smartchat.net.au wrote: Glenn, Daniel is definitely not old enough to have been around in the 19th century, nor did anyone except Jacquard even dream about computers and printers during that century. Did you mean that Daniel supplied your printer in the 20th Century? On 08/09/2010, at 18:04 , Glenn Cardwell wrote: Agree with Daniel. Bought a Brother printer off him back in the 19th century. Still works a treat. Thanks Daniel. Glenn Cardwell On 08/09/2010, at 1:13 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Regards, Ray Forma 50 Harvest Road, North Fremantle WA 6159, Australia Tel Fax +61 (0)8 9335 6568 Mob +61 (0) 428 596938 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Accessing Entourage from separate mac
No, if you have an imap account you can access the same online message store from 2 Macs but not the same Entourage database on one Mac. On 09/09/2010, at 9:41 AM, William Crabb wrote: Can Entourage messages be accessed from another Mac? The other Mac is connected by network cable, Thanks, Bill -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Android Phone?
I want to buy an unlocked smartphone,to take overseas. The Samsung Galaxy with Android OS looks pretty cool, much cheaper than an iPhone 4. Does anyone have any experience of these phones (or any Android OS phone) compared to an iPhone? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Android Phone?
Thanks Martin, not encouraging to say the least! On 10/09/2010, at 7:25 AM, Martin Hill wrote: Android is in my opinion a better choice than Blackberry, Symbian or Windows Mobile (shudder!) and it's good to have a decent competitor to keep Apple on its toes. However, it is a bit like buying a Windows PC instead of a Mac because it is cheaper (or more open). Generally you will get more options and hardware choices, but less elegance, less vertical integration, more incompatibilities, frustrating platform fragmentation, vastly more malware and more fiddling to keep it working. Unlike the Windows PC comparison, if you want the most apps and the largest platform, it is the iPhone and iOS that has by far the largest installed base (120 million) and quarterly sales. Here in Australia the iPhone has captured 40% of the smartphone market and is only 5% behind a first place but rapidly shrinking Symbian according to IDC in q1 2010. The iPhone is projected to overtake Nokia to become the number One smartphone in Australia in Q2. In contrast Android has only captured a measly 2.1 percent. If you're particularly wanting a smartphone for it's apps, then caveat emptor. Here's some bits I previously wrote analysing the Android platform: The current state of Android Apps is a big disadvantage for Android. Firstly there is the matter of profitability for developers which translates into less quality apps, less support and less choice for consumers. According to Larva Labs, Android developers have made $21 million which is only 2% of the $1 billion paid out to iOS developers despite the Android Marketplace launching only 3 months after the iPhone App Store. Larva Labs highlights how much of a cottage industry the paid Android Market remains, with insufficient sales numbers to warrant full-time labor for paid content” As Gameloft has said, they make 400x the income from iOS compared to Android. Then there is the matter of quality. Because Google does not review or reject any apps from the Android Marketplace, an enormous amount of spam apps, a growing amount of malware and a large amount of hello world, buggy, and just plain low quality apps now clog the Android Marketplace. John DVD Lech Johansen, the author of DoubleTwist the popular iTunes replacement for Android has this to say about the Marketplace: Google does far too little curation of the Android Market, and it shows. Unlike Apple’s App Store, the Android Market has few high quality apps just a few examples of what’s wrong with the Android Market. Those 144 spam ringtone apps (which are clearly infringing copyright) are currently cluttering the top ranks of the Multimedia category... Developers and users are getting fed up and it’s time for Google to clean up the house. Larva Labs point out that there were roughly 2,250 paid games and 13,000 paid non-game apps in the Market. The reason for the large number of apps vs. games is mainly due to the proliferation of spam apps, something which is much rarer in the games category. In terms of the number of actual downloads by users, iOS App Store downloads now total over 6.5 billion and are growing at a pace of 16 million downloads per day. The number 2 App Store - GetJar - only gets 3 miillion downloads per day. It has taken Android almost 2 years to hit a total of 1 billion downloads. iOS does that number every 2 months. Then there are the multiple malware apps that have been widely distributed from the Android Marketplace including the nasty wallpaper trojan that was downloaded 4 million times before being outed and the particularly malicious Russian Premium SMS texter trojan not to mention the many bank phishing apps and spyware apps plaguing the platform. Lastly, with piracy rates for Android software running between 50% and 97% and Android's easily circumvented anti-piracy measures, there is far less incentive for developers to commit to developing commercial software for Android. Then there is the iPod's over-whelming dominance of the media player market (70-80%) and the HiFi integration market (95%) and iTunes dominance of the online music and media market (70%), the iPad's Godzilla status in the Tablet market (90%), and the huge installed base of iOS devices in general (100 million+) all mean Android has a long hard road ahead of it. With the iPod dock connector and steering wheel integration already either standard or an option in 70% of new cars, you won't get that sort of integration from an Android phone. -Mart Martin Hill mailto:mart_h...@mac.com homepages: http://web.mac.com/mart_hill Mb: 0401-103-194 hm: (08)9314-5242 On 09/09/2010, at 11:42 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: I want to buy an unlocked smartphone,to take overseas. The Samsung Galaxy with Android OS looks pretty cool, much cheaper
Re: Android Phone?
Cheers Ray, great info. There is a pretty hillarious vid here of the Apple iPhone V android here, it's a bit rude so be warned. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FL7yD-0pqZg Rob On 10/09/2010, at 10:09 AM, Ray Forma wrote: Rob, also keep in mind the frequencies on which your new phone can work. For most of the world except Japan and the Americas make sure your phone can work on the 900 and 1800 MHz frequency bands. For the Americas you need a phone that can work on the 850 and 1900 MHz frequency bands. Japan Korea is a complex case explained at the end of this email. The following URL gives a list of GSM frequencies by country. Note that this list does not include 4G etc frequencies, and that Japan is not there. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Android Phone?
I'm actually going to India for a couple of months, just want to check my email and use Google Maps, Lonely Planet and the like. On 10/09/2010, at 10:40 AM, Mark Secker wrote: When I flew in to Japan 04 and 06 both Narita and Kansai airports (Tokyo and Osaka/Kobe/Kyoto respectively) had a mobile phone rental shop in the general area of near the JR ticket office (the online maps were not overly helpful) ... I considered it but it was not cheap for the rentals or the call plan. If you were there for business I guess it would be justifiable but for a short holiday probably not so. On 10/09/10 10:09 AM, Ray Forma r...@smartchat.net.au wrote: Rob, In Japan mobile there are three mobile phone technologies supported by the major networks within Japan - PDC (Personal Digital Cellular), CDMA, and WCDMA. DoCoMo, Vodafone and TU-KA support the established PDC, and DoCoMo and Vodafone have also introduced the newer WCDMA, while AU supports CDMA. All three of these technologies are incompatible with each other. Most also use non-standard frequencies. The Korean situation is similar. Most people advise to rent a phone in these two countries. Good luck with that one. On 09/09/2010, at 23:42 , Rob Findlay wrote: mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) Teaching Facilities Administrator Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Entourage problem
iphones lock out mailboxes for some ridiculous length of time after popping. Best if the iphone is set to get mail to set it to manual, turn push or automatic setting off. On 08/09/2010, at 5:48 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Thanks Ronni and Daniel, for your quick and learned responses. These are good suggestions and we will try quitting Entourage from the other laptop before accessing emails from the iMac. Not sure if her iPhone or iPad are also trying to access the email. I wonder why the other three email accounts are not producing the same error as they are all on the laptop and the iMac. One of life's mysteries Lloyd Hi Lloyd If it's who I think it is, that's happened before with her email accounts. (which I'd worked on before to fix) :o) As Ronni has mentioned it's when the Mailbox is being accessed too quickly, or two things (accounts or devices) trying to access it at the same time. It then gets locked from the Server end. Need to wait for it to unlock or ensure two email accounts aren't accessing the same mailbox. Kind Regards Daniel Sent from my iPhone --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry.com.au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** On 8/9/10 4:29 PM, Lloyd White lloydwh...@iinet.net.au wrote: I recently passed my old (and loved) iMac to my daughter and she set up her four email accounts in Entourage. OS 10.4.11 Now when she checks for new mail the following message crops up, but only for one email account. The server for account .. returned the error Your mailbox is already locked. Your username, password or security setting may be incorrect. Would you like to try re-entering your password? We re-enter it correctly but the message comes back. The settings are exactly the same for the other email accounts but only this one gives the error message. What does mailbox already locked mean? I can't find anything checked in the Security preferences or anything else about Security settings. Any help would be appreciated. Lloyd -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Lloyd White 22 Challenger Parade City Beach Western Australia 6015 Ph: and Fax: +61893858174 (08) 9385 8174 Skype: lloyd_white Email: lloydwh...@iinet.net.au Write a Winning Job Application 4th Edition. http://lloydwhite.iinet.net.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Does a new user account access all Macintosh HD content ?
On 11/08/2010, at 6:11 AM, Steven Knowles wrote: 'm guessing that I'm going to get told that if I want a multi user machine, I should be filing my own not for everybody stuff somewhere within my Home folder, but thought I'd best check with the experts before I start reorganising my whole filing cabinet. You got it. User level documents should be kept below the User level not at the root level of the drive which should be reserved for System created folders. Anything that needs to be shared should be kept in the shared folder under Users. This didn't matter in pre OS X systems and many Mac users happily kept their stuff there. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Citrix client setup
It depends what's running at the other end. I have clients who access the Dep Mines Petroleum database using just the Citrix Web Plugin. My wife is able to access her work environment also using just the web plugin on her Macbook Pro running Snow Leopard. She goes to the secure gateway via Safari and when she logs in the plugin activates and she enters the PC environment. On 10/08/2010, at 11:12 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: Is there anyone on the list with experience in setting up the latest Citrix Client software on a Mac? The documentation to this stuff could not possibly be more vague or confusing. I have a client who needs to access a web site which requires this stuff. The documentation is fraught with blind alleys and circular links, so I need some way to break through. Any assistance will be very gratefully received. Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Web Hosting
Thanks Mathew for your considered reply. I was in a bit of a hurry so after a bit of research I went with Digital Pacific which was recommended by Laura. Seemed to have the best combination of features, storage and bandwidth at the pricepoint I was aiming at. They are located in Sydney and claim to be eco friendly in terms purchasing carbon credits equivalent to their power usage. On 02/08/2010, at 10:12 PM, Matthew Healey wrote: On 29/07/2010, at 9:45 AM, Rob Findlay wrote: I have to register a new domain and setup a webpage, something I haven't done for a while. Anyone recommend a good one stop shop to register and setup the hosting? I used Crazy Domains last time which seems cheap and adequate. Would like to try somewhere else out of interest if the prices are competitive. Hi Rob and all, I've been thinking about your request for a few days now try to work out how to best respond. I could easily give you a URL or two of various hosting companies (which I will do anyway at the end of this email) but I figured it would be better to tell you WHY one host is better than another. There are a few things that you need to take into account when choosing a web host, and they are; in no particular order... 1. We're not fancy, but we cheep! Beware of the host that is too cheap, for they will be running a massively oversubscribed network. They have to make up in numbers, what they lack in profit margin. This means that you could be sharing a single server with literally thousands of other web sites. Your site will be sloww. 2. It costs a fortune, it must be good. Just because something is expensive doesn't mean you are getting anything other than shafted. It just means the company in question has a particular interest in parting fools and their money. If a web hosts pricing is significantly more expensive for roughly the same advertised service, it usually means it's run by a board of directors that are still annoyed with Theodore for breaking up Standard Oil. 3. I take the money, you do the work. When you rent web space from a company, make sure they actually own and run the servers you are hosting on. A lot of web hosts out there are just resell other companies products. This makes troubleshooting a real pain as you need to go through a third party to fix a pesky script. It also means that there is someone in process taking money but not providing any value. Been there, done that. Won't do it again. 4. Everybody loves good neighbours. Look for local companies, that have local support. The last thing you want to have to do it wait until their time zone wakes up to lodge a support ticket. Keeping it local also means you can perhaps go and visit them. I have gotten many 'unsupported' things done by rocking up with a carton of beer/redbull on a Friday afternoon. Most local companies will go out of their way to help you. 5. Everybody loves good neighbours, part 2 (or... It's a long way to Tipperary) Look for local companies that have their servers on the same continent as your customers. I have the displeasure of of supporting a retail shop who insist on working with a local web design house that run their servers out of Texas! The shop wonders why their site loads so slowly... I had a few more points, but the email was staring to get a bit lengthy. Sort of like that old Uncle that never seems to get that he should have stopped talking about 10 minutes ago. With all that in mind, you will recall I said I would give you a URL to peruse. Well... here it is. http://www.webinabox.net.au Lets cover the points; 1. Reasonably priced to keep subscription ratios low and equipment quality high. 2. First born child not required as down-payment. 3. Their servers, their switches, their routers, their responsibility, their control. 4. WA boys born and bread. (Except one of them, but he's a bit weird anyway...) 5. All their primary gear is in WA. They do have backups overseas which is a good thing. I use them for all my clients hosting, and they also host the WAMUG web site and mailing list. Give them a call. (Shane, Trent or Andrew) - Matt Healey -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: resetting admin password
On 31/07/2010, at 11:07 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Thanks heaps Ronni One thing that may be amiss is that the install disk is 10.4 and the machine is 10.5.2! I recall updating a few years ago? Would that make a difference? That will do it. 10.4 still uses Netinfo which isn't in 10.5. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Web Hosting
Thanks for the replies people. Digital Pacific are looking good as are Dotinfo which Steven recommended, similar prices and services. Decisions, decisions! On 29/07/2010, at 8:38 PM, Laura Bernay wrote: I use Digital Pacific and find them really good. There is always someone who will talk to you by phone and they are really helpful about everything. They were recommended to me by UWA where I set up my website using CMS. I don't know how cheap you want but I fund their fees pretty competitive. Laura -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Safari 5.0.1 update now available includes security fixes
It also officially support plug-ins. http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2010/07/extension-performance-vastly-improved-in-safari-501.ars?utm_source=rssutm_medium=rssutm_campaign=rss On 29/07/2010, at 2:09 AM, Alexander Hartner wrote: An updated version of Safari which addresses recently discovered security flaws is now available via software update. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/07/28/apple_safari_bug_patch/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Web Hosting
I have to register a new domain and setup a webpage, something I haven't done for a while. Anyone recommend a good one stop shop to register and setup the hosting? I used Crazy Domains last time which seems cheap and adequate. Would like to try somewhere else out of interest if the prices are competitive. Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Setting up Macmini Snow Leopard Server
1. Read the manuals, browse the discussion boards at Apple, get your hands dirty. I've never done training courses but I'm sure it would be helpful if they are well organised which I suppose they have to be. 2. I've setup a few lately for clients. They are a great little deal for the money and with Snow Leopard Server Apple have finally got something that's pretty usable out of the box for groupware. With the last couple I setup I trained the staff in basic admin stuff and hold their hands when they get our of their depth. You can get me at Team Digital, otherwise I'm sure Daniel or one of the others on here can help you out. Rob On 22/07/2010, at 9:51 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: I'm currently setting up an Intel iMac as my surgery 'server' as our Windows 'server' 'died' last weeks and it is not worth resurrecting it. It was 5 years old. I want to investigate if a Macmini Snow Leopard Server. I'm looked at various file on the Apple site and it is very appealing. Hopefully it will be part of the insurance claim. I also see that there is an organisation in Perth that has training courses. Two points 1 What is the best way to learn about this server? 2 Are there organisations or individuals with a proven record that can advise, install the server and give us advise about future issues. Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Epson Stylus Pro 3880
Most USB things come to life with that sort of basic method. The hot plugging in kind of wakes things up again and the turning off and on makes sure the printer is not in a error state. Glad I could help. On 14/07/2010, at 5:08 PM, Reg Whitely wrote: Hey Rob, thanks for that tip. Our Epson 510 was out of yellow ink and we knew others were running low but the ink status monitor showed as being disabled. I switched the printer off, unplugged the usb, switched it on and replugged the cable, and voila ink levels show again. Hmm, well now we're off to buy 5 new cartridges! Thanks for the tip. I hope Rosalyn solves her problem just as easily. Reg On 14/07/2010, at 11:14 AM, Rob Findlay wrote: Have you tried simply turning the printer off, unplug the USB cable, turn the printer back on and plug the cable back in? Then start the print queue. On 14/07/2010, at 10:47 AM, William Crabb wrote: Hi All, Just wondering if anyone can help me. I have sent jobs to the printer as normal, and nothing is happening. The jobs are getting stored, but not printing, and it is showing status as stopped. I've been using this same printer for a couple of years and have never seen this status. Any suggestions greatly appreciated, as I have a heap of stuff to print today and this is not a good start... Regards, Rosalyn -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Reg Whitely Home: 08 9921 7272 Mob: 04 8899 7313 Email: rwhit...@internode.on.net Web: http://web.me.com/whitelyr/Reg/ http://beachlands.wordpress.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Epson Stylus Pro 3880
Have you tried simply turning the printer off, unplug the USB cable, turn the printer back on and plug the cable back in? Then start the print queue. On 14/07/2010, at 10:47 AM, William Crabb wrote: Hi All, Just wondering if anyone can help me. I have sent jobs to the printer as normal, and nothing is happening. The jobs are getting stored, but not printing, and it is showing status as stopped. I've been using this same printer for a couple of years and have never seen this status. Any suggestions greatly appreciated, as I have a heap of stuff to print today and this is not a good start... Regards, Rosalyn -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Annoying new habit with the Title Bar
Weird. THe little grey bubble on the right is supposed to do that. Try trashing com.apple.finder.plist inside home/Library/Preferences Then press command + option + escape and relaunch the Finder in the Force Quit window that comes up. On 01/07/2010, at 11:14 AM, Matt Falvey wrote: Hi, I keep getting an annoying new unwanted feature with the title bar in many applications. Sometimes when I click on either the red, orange or green dot the window instead behaving as it is supposed to do, close, disappear or resize, it shrinks up to a small grey title bar window that is the width of the original window, but the height of the three dots and it only contains the three dots in their normal place on the LHS? Why? Has anyone had this happen to them and how do I stop it from happening? Thanks Matt -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone sending email on telstra
Anyone can get a free Gmail account. In your Gmail settings you can setup your main account as the address to send email from. This means Gmail will send mail for you with the return address of your own preferred email account. Once this is setup you can use smtp.gmail.com with SSL on port 587 as your primary outgoing server and it pretty much works anywhere on any device. If you have a SPAM problem you can also forward your mail to Gmail to run it through their amazingly effective filters and store it in IMAP form on the server in practically unlimited quantity so you never risk losing mail if your computer crashes. Good Value. On 27/06/2010, at 9:23 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Daniel Alex, Daniel, are all your email accounts IMAP? Or can you send using a POP account on 3G Network? Like Susan mentioned in her reply, when on the 3G Network I have to use my MobileMe IMAP Mail account to send (which is what I do). As I cannot send using my Westnet POP Mail Account, unless I change the Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) to mail.bigpond.com. Both Westnet MobileMe 'Outgoing Mail Server (SMTP) use Default Ports 25,465,587. Westnet SMTP is: Authentication NONE does NOT use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)) MobileMe SMTP is: Authentication Password, Username Password does NOT use SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) I have my MobileMe ro...@mac.com set as my 'Default' Primary Account on my iPhone, so all mail is sent via ro...@mac.com. I have the same issue when travelling with my MacBook Pro and connecting through other Networks in Hotels. I can send using my MobileMe Mail account, but not my Westnet Mail Account unless I change the server. I can see where Alex is coming from, but as I use my MobileMe account as default primary account, it doesn't really trouble me that much. Cheers, Ronni On 26/06/2010, at 8:37 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Keychain help please
The only problem with this is it sounds like the keychain has been locked so it will ask for a password to store the password. Depending on how many other items are in the keychain I would probably just trash the keychain from ~/Library/Keychains then launch Safari and when it says there is no keychain environment choose reset, enter your login password and create a new blank keychain which will have the same password as the login password. Of course this gets more problematic if there are other items in the old keychain that you don't know the password for. On 24/06/2010, at 2:35 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Laura, The User ID=501 is you The Owner. Ownership in Mac OS X, and all flavours of Unix, is based on an account’s user identification number (UID) and a group’s group identification number (GID), not on the user name and group name you see in the Info window or other folder listings. Those names are for our convenience; the computer cares only about the numeric identifiers. Don't change Access Control! Laura, you need to know the password for your Mail Account … do you know it? It is the password you have entered when you setup your email account. Mail Preferences Accounts - iiNet POP - Account Information - Incoming Mail Server: mail.iinet.com.au Password: …….. If you know your mail account password (as my following instructions are going to delete it from your Keychain login) 1. Quit Mail 2. Choose Keychain Access Keychain First Aid. 3.Click the Repair radio button, enter your administrator password, and click Start. Then open Mail, if Mail still asks for the Mail account password. 1. Return to Keychain Access, select your Login Keychain 2. Locate your mail server in the list (mail.iinet.com.au), select it, and click Delete. The next time you check your email, you’ll be prompted for your password; enter it, select Remember This Password in My Keychain, and click OK. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 2:00 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Yes that is correct, I used my normal login password for the verification but if I use it when asked for loginkeychain password I get the message that the password is invalid. In Access Control I tried deselecting confirm before allowing access and instead chose allow all applications to access this item so that access to Mail is not restricted. If I then select save changes I am again asked for the password, and again when I enter my normal login password I am told it is invalid. I don't know what the (user ID=501) means, it's not something I recognise. This is the result of the verification. Regards Laura Verification started Checking keychain configuration for eljay (user ID=501) Home directory is /Users/eljay Checked login keychain Checked default keychain Checked keychain search list Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/login.keychain Checked contents of ~/Library/Keychains/Microsoft_Intermediate_Certificates No problems found Verification completed On Thu Jun 24 13:41 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: Hi Laura, You say below that you did 'Verify' your login keychain … You had to type in your Administrator(User Account) password to allow you to do that? If you never set a different password for your Keychain 'login', the password is your Administrator password. Cheers, Ronni On 24/06/2010, at 1:21 PM, el...@iinet.net.au wrote: Hi Ronni Thanks for that but still no joy. I've followed the steps you mention but when I select show password I am asked for my keychain login password. The only password I know is my main login password and when I insert that I get a message saying it is invalid. Is there a separate admin password? I did the verify process and no problems were found. All I had done was open Keychain Access, looked at what was there, decided I did not understand it and left the site, so still can't work out what has caused the problem. Kind regards Laura On Thu Jun 24 12:35 , Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com sent: On 24/06/2010, at 11:46 AM, Laura Webb wrote: Hi Ronni When you recently responded to a query and indicated how you use Keychain I decided I should have a look at whether I should be doing likewise. I didn't get very far, was not sure what to do so just left it alone. At least that's what I thought I had done but now I am locked out of Mail and am constantly asked for a password. The only password I know to use is my Login password which is not accepted. I've tried clicking on the closed padlock but that has no effect. I've followed the steps in Mail Help but still cannot get anywhere. Please can you tell me what I have done to cause this problem. The only way I can access Mail is to go through my ISP and webmail. Kind regards Laura MacBook 10.6.4 Hi Laura, Without knowing exactly what you did in your
Re: MacBook Pro Trackpad problem
Have you tried booting of the install CD, see if it works when not booted from the OS on the hard drive? If it works you could do an archive install. On 24/06/2010, at 2:26 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I have an interesting one here, so looking for some ideas ;) (Long day,...brain half asleep,..etc) Have a client with a MacBookPro (2GHz/2GB RAM/80GB HDD) running 10.4.11 all OS updates. As they've said They aren't sure what they've done but for some reason during a program crash or restart something has happened to their trackpad button. It won't accept clicks. You can move the arrow around the screen you just can't click on anything. At first I thought easy,..Universal Access or Trackpad setting. But nope. They have a Bluetooth Mouse, so plugged this to use it. And strangely enough. Same thing. The mouse will move around the cursor on screen. It will right click,...but no left (single) click. I've gone through with them over the phone in a lengthy call (as they live in Port Hedland) the following:- Removed com.apple.systemprefernces.plist com.apple.universalaccess.plist com.apple.finder.plist (I think there was a couple more,..but now can't remember,..lol). Restarted numerous times. PRAM Zap Tried to run Disk Utility and Repair Permissions, but we can't get as far as clicking the Repair Permission button. (we managed to get the application open and select the drive..just no keyboard command to tell it to start repair...lol. Have checked Trackpad in System Preferences and all the correct things are ticked. Checked Universal Access and made sure that Mouse Keys was off, which it was. Also checked Sticky Keys, which was also off. (And checked the other settings versus what I have, and all matched). Googled through a few articles changing what I was searching for a few times to try modify the results. Got a couple of similar articles, one saying to repair permissions and it would fix it. Problem is,..we can't. I've suggested tomorrow if she can to beg, borrow or steal a USB mouse (rather then a Bluetooth one) and see what results with that. But I'm not holding my breath. Oh, and also tried to start up in Safe Boot Mode (shift key held down). But that didn't help either. Same thing,..no mouse click. So. I'm at a bit of a loss. Hoping someone may have some other solutions or ideas to try. Or maybe I'm looking for something completely different and it's actually an easy fix! :o) (And it's actually very difficult to control a computer when you can't use a click. You certainly have to remember all the keyboard commands again to do things). Oh, and Fn-5 or Fn-F5 didn't work as a Mouse click either. I think that was everything I tried. Brain in late mode, so I'm sure I'll remember something else after I post this. ;) Sorry for the long email. Just wanted to show I'd covered a few things so as to not waste too much time. Look forward to any suggestions ;O) (Short of a fix, she's thinking of posting the laptop back to me to work on before she comes back to Perth for a short visit) Thanks!! Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HELP Please
I don't have time for a long reply but essentially once you are booted off the install CD you launch Disk Utility from the Utilities menu and erase the disk then carry of with the installer. Once you have a clean Mac OS you have to install Fusion then XP from within Fusion. I would download the latest build of Fusion rather than an old copy. Hope that's helpful Rob On 23/06/2010, at 1:30 AM, Kaye Tucker wrote: Hi, I am a total computer dummy that decided to use Apple's contrary to my families suggestion. I have had several MacBookPro's for the last 2 years and had no major problems. I have to run Fusion and XP to operate my various sewing programs. Yesterday I decided to buy an Imac 21.5 but am having no joy installing XP. I assumed that if I installed the Mac operating system again it would clear the entire computer but it seems to have installed everything twice. Could someone please tell me how I clear the entire hard drive so that I can start from scratch again please? Thanks, Kaye -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Photographer / Filmaker seeking assistance getting a Mac
Hi people, a friend sent me this recently. My understanding is Apple aren't that interested in things like this but I figured if anyone knew of a way to help it would be here. Feel free to email him direct if you have any thoughts. To Rob Findlay, Team Digital, Perth From Peter Strain, Photographer giant.ti...@gmail.com Dear Rob You are the only person I know in the Apple echelons, so I seek some direction from you. I am setting off on a 3 month photographic expedition within 4 weeks and my old Toshiba Tecra is a risk because of its age and also it doesn't handle HD vision. So I have to try and upgrade. I have a good measure of sponsorship and support for the expedition - Tropical Marine Services are providing a 70 foot expedition vessel and skipper for frre - West Australian Marine Science Institute are putting in $23000 to be able to put three scientists with us for 20 days - Linney's Pearls are providing $20,000 for a film maker from Geo New Media to come on board with the scientists and make a doco about my work and the interaction with the scientists. - Am still hanging out for two other sponsors to approve support with upgrades to some Canon SLR equipment and lenses But I can't get money for computer upgrade. And my personal resources are stretched to the limit. I want to go to Final cut pro because of its ability to handle the HD formats I will be using with video from the new Canon SLR bodies and from the underwater cameras.. I will be using the Canons as HD 1080p movie cameras as well as for stills. The focus is on the stills work, but I will shoot HD video as well (because I can). The Geo New Media crew will bring their own HD gear on board, but I will supply them with the 'blue chip' close-up macro work, time lapses and general coastal image of when they are not aboard. Two things - what is the minimum hardware and software I can get away with at the moment on Apple? I won't be editing long form in the field, but will need to edit some short pieces and be able to create 'hold take' reels. - if I can beg, borrow or steal a MAc from somewhere for the three months - at least I will have ingested to hard drives with material that I can work with on Final Cut Pro when I can afford a machine after the expedition. - Do you know of any program or route that Apple could lend a machine as sponsorship? I have become quite 'sponsorable' for my stills photography over the last couple of years. Australian Geographic has been good to me with three runs now, including the last one that I got to write as well as photograph. They just told me that my work is to be included in a coffee table glossy book they are putting out to celebrate 25 years of great Australian photography. Also Photo Review Australia ran a five page feature on my work at the beginning of the year. It's that article that brought about the offer of the expedition vessel from Tropical Marine Services. The vessel already has Apple gear on the bridge. Given that someone else is making a doco about me - we could ensure good product placement. I am a well qualified broadcast producer and editor and would do Apple proud if I could access some gear for the project period. There is a website Fine Art Photography from remote shores that I have set up to present the project as it evolves. It is a groundbreaking project that is already getting a lot of attention. It will get good coverage. I will have some idea of the Australian Geographic articles over the next 12 months generated from this. The current issue is 'just being put to bed' and then The photo editor and story editor will work through my suggestions. So I should be in a good position to pitch to an appropriate person for IT support at the end of the week. There will be a series of exhibitions of the collection after the expedition. I can create video interstitials of Apple media working in the field. This will undoubtedly be the most interesting and extensive display of photographs and media materials of Australia's remote Kimberley coast available at completion. An announcement of Heritage Listing for the Kimberley coast is due very soon. If you have any thoughts on my equipment needs - ie suggestions; or know of any process or contacts to approach Apple for some support - it would be greatly appreciated. Hope you are well. Kind regards -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB Broadband Prepaid Modems
You didn't say what Mac and what OS. I was most interested to hear which modems definitely work on Power PC and with Leopard. Cheers Rob On 27/04/2010, at 5:51 AM, KEVIN Lock wrote: I set up an elderly lady with an Optus pre-paid wireless modem. $199 includes the modem and a 12 month contract @ 1gb a month. If she exceeds the limit it is charged at 7c per mb. At the conclusion of the contract the bills are $15 per month. Seems to be working OK and Optus support has been good, albeit from the Phillipines. Vivid Wireless is looking very good for us as we cannot get better than 420bps on Twin Pair Gain phone lines. If we could get BB2+ our iinet a/c offers lots of free zones. Kev It's been my experience that the reality doesn't match what they claim are supported platforms. I want to give my niece an old G4 PPC Powerbook running Leopard and one of these devices she can top up with credit at her leisure. Anyone know which brand works with this config from experience? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
USB Broadband Prepaid Modems
It's been my experience that the reality doesn't match what they claim are supported platforms. I want to give my niece an old G4 PPC Powerbook running Leopard and one of these devices she can top up with credit at her leisure. Anyone know which brand works with this config from experience? -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Youtube Flash Player
It's a Click to Flash Bug. You need the latest version. On 21/04/2010, at 9:22 PM, Brian Risbey wrote: Hi to all, Until a week ago I could watch video on Youtube, now the video blacked area becomes white and I get the message to 'Go Upgrade so I did. Next message after trying to install on HD, your current version is newer, so no installation possible. I have done this a few times, rebooted, even tried uninstalling flash with Flash uninstaller. Yes I have click to flash installed but has worked flawlessly. My 5yr old son can use 'reading eggs' net based language program that uses flash animation without any problems, Is a Mime plug-in or another issue here, thank you for your thoughts. Brian Model Name: MacBook Pro Model Identifier:MacBookPro4,1 Processor Name: Intel Core 2 Duo Processor Speed: 2.6 GHz Number Of Processors:1 Total Number Of Cores: 2 L2 Cache:6 MB Memory: 4 GB Bus Speed: 800 MHz Boot ROM Version:MBP41.00C1.B00 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: ipod transfers
iRip, formerly iPod Rip (before apple sued them for having iPod in the name) is the most well known programme to do this. http://thelittleappfactory.com/irip/ I'm sure there are cheaper / free solutions but I know this works and it's only $20. On 18/04/2010, at 11:43 AM, LLOYD Gerald [Safety Bay Senior High School] wrote: Hi Anybody out there know how to transfer/back up music on one of the old 20g ipods to itunes or a hard disk?? Gerry Lloyd Manager Student Services Safety Bay SHS -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Strange 24-second pauses
David, this might be worth a look http://support.apple.com/kb/DL947 If still no joy try opening the Activity Monitor in the Utilities Folder. Set it to show all processes and sort the data by %CPU by clicking on that column. When the stall happens look at the monitor and see what is using the CPU. On 29/03/2010, at 2:42 PM, David Noel wrote: -- Hi All, can anybody throw any light on the following? -- We lost power during the Great Hailstorm of March 22, and were off for 4 days. When power was restored, I was pleased that my Intel iMac (on 10.6.2) was able to power up again apparently normally. But since then, with all applications (eg writing this email), for no obvious reason the computer has at times gone into a 'pause mode'. -- With this, during actions such as scrolling along a movie or switching to another application, the screen more or less freezes and the coloured wheel appears. After about 24 seconds the wheel disappears and normal service is resumed. It's bearable but annoying, without apparent ill effects in the long run, sometimes happening every minute or so, sometimes going half an hour or more before showing up. -- I have the widget which shows CPU, disk etc usage and can't see anything special with it (though invoking widgets during a 'pause' usually shows everything without data, and sometimes the CPU widget doesn't appear at all). -- Any thoughts, please? Cheers -- David Noel 2010 Mar 29 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: VMWare Fusion v2/CD-ROM
There is a little CD icon on the bottom right of the VM ware window, if you right mouse click there and say disconnect the CD will show up in Mac. You can configure the preferences so they don't automatically mount in VMWare. On 27/03/2010, at 10:52 PM, Gavin Criddle wrote: Hi Stuart, If the virtual machine has control of the CD, it will not show up in the Finder. Gav On 27/03/2010, at 9:13 PM, Stuart Breden wrote: I'm just getting to know Windows XP with VMWare Fusion v2. I like the concept with VMWare Fusion v2. One thing I've noticed is that when Fusion is running CD-ROM's do not show in OS 10.6. Not in the side bar or even on the desktop. I've looked at the preference in Finder and Fusion but there does not appear to anything. Any suggestions? Stuart Breden PO Box 132 Kalamunda WA 6926 Ph: (08) 9257 1577 Mbl: 0417 053 266 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Serious White Hat Question
FSEventer monitors every change that happens to your hard drive, events can be flagged, filtered. Not the functionality you describe in Systracer but handy. Litte Snitch is similar to Fiddler. Wireshark runs on Mac under X-11. Needs a little tweak to get running but your friend shouldn't have any problem. It's just changing a permission somewhere, can't remember but the info is out there. I use Wireshark all the time on Snow Leopard. On 26/02/2010, at 9:01 PM, Aurora74 wrote: Hi Guys, I have a friend who is a professional While Hat needing to look at the Healthy Option (Apple a day). They need apps that mimic the following in the Mac SysTracer, Fiddler, Wireshark, Netmon systracer takes a system snapshot of the windows registry, files and folders. you can take multiple snapshots and compare any two that you wish. and the results are color coded depending on whether something is added, deleted, or changed re systracer ... reports can be exported in html and viewed in a web browser nd the captures can be imported into systracer on another PC for close examination Fiddler captures all HTTP and HTTPS traffic (reducing the signal to noise ratio of products like wireshark) and can decrypt SSL traffic Wireshark and Netmon capture network traffic Any suggestions? Smiles Aurora -- We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars - Oscar Wilde -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Blocking Flash
I love CTF, Can actually read sites without the fans starting up on my Macbook and the CPU meter going off the scale :) On 24/02/2010, at 12:07 AM, Matthew Healey wrote: Hi All, With all the well-deserved Flash-bagging going around I thought it poignant to mention a great little plugin for Safari called Click2Flash. http://rentzsch.github.com/clicktoflash/ Essentially, it blocks all Flash assets on a web page until you explicitly click on them. From a purely subjective point of view, web browsing is significantly faster on flash-ad heavy sites. It just feels smoother. It's also quite an eye-opened to see how much Flash content is actually embedded into sites these days. Try it out. - Matt Healey -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: UPS advice requested
If you want the Mac to shut down gracefully ensure that the UPS has a USB connector. When this is plugged in to the Mac your Energy Saver Control Panel will detect the UPS and display extra settings relating to shutting down the Mac if the UPS loses power from the mains. It doesn't require any 3'd party software or extensions to control this. I believe most of the Belkin ones have this. On 06/02/2010, at 3:40 PM, Mike Fuller wrote: Thanks James My intention for a UPS is purely so I can shut down the Mac in a reasonable way - I'm not interested in running it for long during a blackout. My primary intent is to protect the Mac from sudden power fluctuations. And my laser printer would certainly not be on the circuit. Cheers Mike On 06/02/2010, at 3:26 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: just watchhow long does the ups has to provide the power in case of power failure 600va sound good as power rating but it seems the batteries can only delived that for a few minutes!!! check the tech info if you intend to connect the printer as well then you have to provide for surge power if its a laser printer i'm using a 1600w unit my powerbook, modem, phones can run for 3h of battery.. sometimes an inverter 12 to 240v, large battery pack (carbatteries) charger unit can can keep going your mac for hours.. James On 06/02/2010, at 13:56, Mike Fuller wrote: I should be receiving my quad core iMac 27 next week, after a shorter than anticipated wait :-) I want to look after the power input and will be getting either a good surge protector or a UPS. My query is what is a suitable size UPS for this computer considering the max continuous power is listed at 365W for the 27? I can get a 600VA for a reasonable price but the cost accelerates above that. Along with the iMac I will probably only be running the modem/router on the UPS. Cheers Mike Fuller -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway over 40 years in electronics -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer
If it's running bonjour you can use the little freeware util, Bonjour Browser to find it. Else if it has an IP lease from the router you can log in to the router and look at DHCP clients or attached devices. If you only have a few devices it should be pretty easy to spot. On 02/02/2010, at 6:11 PM, Mike Moore wrote: I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my computers via the router. With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer. I have tried printing out the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help forums) but it doesn't show on that. I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to what to do. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Discovering IP Address for an HP Laserjet printer
You don't need to if you already found the IP address via bonjour browser. It's simply another way to find out information you already have. Assuming that you have now configured the printer as an IP printer your problem is now probably that you either have the wrong driver or that the driver is incompatible with Snow leopard. You could try changing it to a generic postscript driver and see if that works or look for an updated driver from HP. On 02/02/2010, at 11:27 PM, Mike Moore wrote: Neil thanks for the advice but I'm not sure how you go about logging into the router. On 02/02/2010, at 6:52 PM, Neil Houghton wrote: Hi Mike, If you log-in to your router configuration using your web-browser can't you see a list of the IP addresses allocated to connected devices? I'm going on old memories here - so its just a guess ;) Cheers Neil -- Neil R. Houghton Albany, Western Australia Tel: +61 8 9841 6063 Email: n...@possumology.com on 2/2/10 6:11 PM, Mike Moore at mikem...@iinet.net.au wrote: I have an HP 8550N Laserjet printer with Jetdirect card connected to my computers via the router. With Snow Leopard I can't connect to the printer. I have tried printing out the configuration page to get its IP address (as suggested in the HP help forums) but it doesn't show on that. I'd be most grateful if someone can point me in the right direction as to what to do. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Entourage bug
I'v'e tried them both and they work fine. On 02/02/2010, at 8:27 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, You can use Terminal to change the default time etc that TM backups. If you don't wish to use a shell prompt using Terminal, there are a couple of software that look like they would do the job. TimeMachineEditor http://timesoftware.free.fr/timemachineeditor/ And TimeMachineScheduler http://www.klieme.com/TimeMachineScheduler.html Please note I have not used the above software as I prefer to use Terminal if required. So I suggest you check the time machine forums or google before using either. Cheers Ronni Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 02/02/2010, at 7:42 AM, Crisp, Peter pcr...@hatch.com.au wrote: Yes, Entourage is left running all day for the usual email correspondence that we all use, so quitting Entourage (and all other Microsoft apps) is not really practical – the back up starts whenever it likes to and maybe I could extend that to daily backups – timed to occur at 2AM – is that possible? Any advice on how I can escape the hang that comes when backup overlaps use of the Microsoft apps gratefully appreciated. Thanks for the link Ronni. Regards Peter.. From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Severin Crisp Sent: Monday, 1 February 2010 10:48 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Entourage bug Interesting. I have Word and Excel from Office 2008 always running but have no problems with hourly Time Machine backups (Leopard). I do not use Entourage at all. Severin Crisp On 01/02/2010, at 9:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, From Microsoft support you must quit all Microsoft Applications before backing up. backing up hourly you must quit quit All Microsoft applications (Entourage, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, My Day, Office Reminders, Messenger) and the Microsoft Database daemon before backing up. See article Quit all Microsoft applications before backing up http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/04/quit_all_microsoft_applications_before_backing_up.html Also, force shutting down your your MacBook is NOT recommended. Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 01/02/2010, at 8:42 PM, Crisp, Peter pcr...@hatch.com.au wrote: I have noticed what I believe is a bug in Entourage (Office 2008). I have a Macbook 13” 1 month old so running Snow Leopard. I also have a Time Capsule. When the hourly backup is running AND at the same time I attempt to Attach a file to an email I am preparing, it all hangs up solid. Option/Command/Escape allows me to crash Entourage which reports as “Not Responding” but I have only been able to get back to ‘normal’ by a forced crash by holding down the Power button and starting again. This seems a bit savage but I am not aware of a more elegant solution. Is this a bug that anyone else has noted and any tips for elegantly restoring the balance without savagely crashing the machine and in turn interrupting the backup as well? Kind Regards Peter… Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH (Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 2Fax + 61 8 9428 ÈMob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail pcr...@hatch.com.au Website http://www.hatch.com.au/ N O T I C E - This message from Hatch is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or proprietary. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. By communicating with us via e-mail, you accept such risks. When addressed to our clients, any information, drawings, opinions or advice (collectively, information) contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing agreements. Where no such agreement exists, the recipient shall neither rely upon nor disclose to others, such information without our written consent. Unless otherwise agreed, we do not assume any liability with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information set out in this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and destroy and delete the message from your computer. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au Assoc Professor R Severin Crisp, FIP, CPhys, FAIP 15 Thomas St, Mount
Re: Entourage bug
The single fact that makes me recommend my clients not to use Entourage is that it keeps all it's data (mail, contacts, calendars) in a single monolithic data file. If you get a lot of email this file will quickly grow to multiple gigabytes. If you use Time Machine, have a 3 Gig Entourage file and you receive 1 email per hour, in 12 hours you will use 36 Gigs of space on it for instances of the Entourage database*. The modified date changes on the database and even if it was a 20k email the whole 3 Gig gets backed up again saturating your network connection for 20 minutes or so. If your database becomes damaged beyond reading and you don't have a backup you lose everything, I've seen this happen many times over the years. Apple Mail by contrast keeps individual emails so if you have 10 Gigs of email it gets backed up once but subsequent backups only add the new emails that have come in so they are a tiny fraction of the original backup in time space. I weaned myself off Entourage a year or so ago after a long time addiction. Quite happy with the Mail, iCal, Address Book paradigm now. *yes I'm aware there are workarounds but they are workarounds and lots of my clients just want stuff that works out of the box. On 02/02/2010, at 11:18 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: I wondered how long it would take for someone to suggest this “solution” – thanks John for raising this one. Having come from a Windows background, I find it hard to move to a program (Mail) that doesn’t have Contacts and Calendar functions integrated into the one app. Mail is just one part of daily activity and within Entourage (like MS Outlook) it is a nice integrated look and feel, not to mention logical, to have Mail/Calendar/Contacts integrated into one app. Can Mail/iCal/Contacts be managed in the same way? I am not 100% settled on Entourage and prepared to consider Mail/iCal/Contacts but it seems retrograde to use 3 apps for what one app can manage albeit with this bug. Maybe Microsoft will arrange a fix for this or maybe I’ll use the noted work-around (a la Time Machine Scheduler) for the temporary “solution” to my problem. Regards Peter….. From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of John Thompson Sent: Tuesday, 2 February 2010 9:20 AM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Entourage bug A very simple solution - ditch Entourage and use Mail. John Thompson On 02/02/2010, at 7:42 AM, Crisp, Peter wrote: Yes, Entourage is left running all day for the usual email correspondence that we all use, so quitting Entourage (and all other Microsoft apps) is not really practical – the back up starts whenever it likes to and maybe I could extend that to daily backups – timed to occur at 2AM – is that possible? Any advice on how I can escape the hang that comes when backup overlaps use of the Microsoft apps gratefully appreciated. Thanks for the link Ronni. Regards Peter.. From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Severin Crisp Sent: Monday, 1 February 2010 10:48 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Entourage bug Interesting. I have Word and Excel from Office 2008 always running but have no problems with hourly Time Machine backups (Leopard). I do not use Entourage at all. Severin Crisp On 01/02/2010, at 9:20 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Peter, From Microsoft support you must quit all Microsoft Applications before backing up. backing up hourly you must quit quit All Microsoft applications (Entourage, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, My Day, Office Reminders, Messenger) and the Microsoft Database daemon before backing up. See article Quit all Microsoft applications before backing up http://blog.entourage.mvps.org/2009/04/quit_all_microsoft_applications_before_backing_up.html Also, force shutting down your your MacBook is NOT recommended. Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 01/02/2010, at 8:42 PM, Crisp, Peter pcr...@hatch.com.au wrote: I have noticed what I believe is a bug in Entourage (Office 2008). I have a Macbook 13” 1 month old so running Snow Leopard. I also have a Time Capsule. When the hourly backup is running AND at the same time I attempt to Attach a file to an email I am preparing, it all hangs up solid. Option/Command/Escape allows me to crash Entourage which reports as “Not Responding” but I have only been able to get back to ‘normal’ by a forced crash by holding down the Power button and starting again. This seems a bit savage but I am not aware of a more elegant solution. Is this a bug that anyone else has noted and any tips for elegantly restoring the balance without savagely crashing the machine and in turn interrupting the backup as well? Kind Regards Peter… Kind Regards, Peter Crisp, Associate, BE Mech HATCH (Phone + 61 8 9428 5437 2Fax + 61 8 9428 ÈMob 0402 001 019 ?E-mail
Re: iPad
+1 on Freo The naysayers out early http://i.gizmodo.com/5458382/8-things-that-suck-about-the-ipad?skyline=trues=i On 28/01/2010, at 9:02 PM, Stuart Evans wrote: Hmmm...have to side with Rod. Go Dockers! ;-) On 28/01/10 3:47 PM, Ronda Brown ro...@mac.com wrote: Exactly true Rod! Let the Wars begin ... Ps Go Dockers Ronni!! Ps Go Pies Rod!!! Bring on the footy Sent from Ronni's iPhone On 28/01/2010, at 3:35 PM, Rod l...@mac.com wrote: The distribution rights have to be sorted out, is my guess. That's why the Kindle's offering in Australia is low compared to the US. I reckon the digital distribution will be a nightmare, as the bricks and mortar bookstores would have seen how Apple changed the music landscape with iTunes. Expect a humdinger battle!! Seeya Rod :-) Ps Go Dockers Ronni!! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: USB connection of External HDD to Time Capsule
What are you trying to do? NTFS drives are read only to a Mac. First thing you will want to do is connect it to a Mac and format it as HFS, then use Airport Utility to either share the disk or make a backup of your Time Capsule. On 23/01/2010, at 10:28 PM, Crisp, Peter wrote: I have a Macbook 13” and have connected a Maxtor 1TB external Hard Disc to the USB port of the Time Capsule (all Apple equipment 1 month old). The HDD was previously connected to a Windows PC and is formatted NTFS. When I use the Airport Utility and go to Manual Setup then selected “Disks” – I can see the Maxtor connected along with the Time Capsule as well. The Time Capsule instructions state very simply to “follow the onscreen instructions to create a new network”. In the process of doing this I disabled my previously created wireless network and knobbled the internet connection I had. I have been able to reinstate the internet connection, but either I am thick or the instructions are not very intuitive. I am at a loss to move on further so I can connect to the USB connected HDD. I have spent a lot of time trying to look at all different options and instructions on the Apple site, Macrumours, etc and no specific assistance on how to set up this. I’m sure this is “Networking 101” level, but I’m missing something simple I think. Any tips gladly received. Regards Peter.. N O T I C E - This message from Hatch is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential or proprietary. Internet communications cannot be guaranteed to be secure or error-free as information could be intercepted, corrupted, lost, arrive late or contain viruses. By communicating with us via e-mail, you accept such risks. When addressed to our clients, any information, drawings, opinions or advice (collectively, information) contained in this e-mail is subject to the terms and conditions expressed in the governing agreements. Where no such agreement exists, the recipient shall neither rely upon nor disclose to others, such information without our written consent. Unless otherwise agreed, we do not assume any liability with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the information set out in this e-mail. If you have received this message in error, please notify us immediately by return e-mail and destroy and delete the message from your computer. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Samorost 2
In Safari Prefs you can choose the default web browser. On 11/01/2010, at 1:45 PM, John Daniels wrote: Thanks Ruben It seems Safari is compulsory because in Finder-get info there is no option open with for this program. On the file menu open with is greyed out. Interesting, but I guess it doesn't really matter which program opens it in the end. Thanks anyway for the advice. Cheers John On 10/01/2010, at 11:06 PM, Dark1 wrote: You might be able to get it to open with firefox if you really want by right clicking it and going to Open With. You might need to select the other option. Also you could edit what to open the file with by using Get Info so it should always open with firefox. Ruben Thanks David That solves all my queries Cheers John On 10/01/2010, at 5:55 PM, choy wrote: It's a flash game - so even though it's been compiled, it still runs via your flash install. Hence why it opens safari, and also why there's no proper app icon. It's the same for many of the flash games converted to pc/mac apps - I have the same issue with plants vs. zombies (a popcap web game) Shouldn't cause any issues but it is annoying and you can't cheat when there's no app ;-) Dave Choy On 10/01/2010, at 4:43 PM, John Daniels wrote: Thanks Ruben I have now copied it from my Mac and that works OK. Despite both Macs having Firefox as the default, the program persists in opening in Safari, so I'll just live with it. Thanks John On 10/01/2010, at 1:28 AM, Dark1 wrote: Hi John I think your probably supposed to copy the App from the mounted dmg file into your applications folder. As for the game always opening in safari her default browser is probably switched to safari and not firefox. Hope this helps Ruben Hi all I downloaded Samorost2 (forMac) and after opening the dmg file the App shows in Finder- Applications OK. When my wife did the same on her Intel 10.5.8 machine she gets the dmg file OK and can play the game but there is no App shown in Finder -Applications. The game always opens in safari although it was downloaded using Firefox. Anyone help on this one? Cheers John -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: keyboard
The clear key generally does it. On 30/12/2009, at 2:11 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Graeme, On Apple Keyboards the NUM LOCK is click fn and F6 (num lock). See if that gives you extended numeric pad function. Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.2 Snow Leopard Windows 7 Ultimate (under sufferance) On 30/12/2009, at 10:55 AM, Graeme Winters wrote: When I took delivery of my 27 IMAC in December I asked for the Parallels package to be installed as I had MYOB for Windows software and as Treasurer for a small NFP organisation I wanted to continue providing this service Because MYOB involves a good deal of data entry I asked for the extended keyboard and the supplier threw this in for me at no extra cost. MYOB works fine except that when I come to enter numbers using the extended numeric pad this key pad does not function. I find I must use the row of numbers across the top of the keyboard The extended part of the keyboard operates fine at all other times. In windows you have NUM LOCK key but not in Apple This implies that the problem is one related to MYOB but not sure Can anyone guide me? Apart from that I have a wireless keyboard surplus to requirements. Can anyone use this? Graeme -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Original Airport Card
Try eBay. On 23/12/2009, at 8:44 AM, Joe Mastrella wrote: A friend has a G4 tower and needs an original Airport Card. Does anyone have one for sale or know where I can locate one. Cheers, Joe -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Mac Tech Wanted
Team Digital is looking for a Mac Service Tech, in-house for hardware repairs. Unfortunately Stuart our Tech is moving on to others challenges so we require someone to manage the workshop. Would need Apple Certifications and obviously the more experience the better. It's a full-time position with good security, holidays and super.Team Digital is a pretty good employer. Let me know 0ff list if you are interested. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Tools of the Devil
Excuse my posting a Windows question here but I trust you guys more than a Google search and random website. I have so little to do with Windows these days it drives me crazy when I have to do something in it. I need a simple one click cheap/free backup for Windows XP. Nothing fancy just select a folder of docs, select a target, press backup. Needs to be really simple for one of my clients who is not tech savvy. I need to be able to setup a script that copies A - B but not schedule as it will happen at different times. Versioning would be nice but not essential. I've found a bunch of stuff by Google but wanted a personal recommendation. I've previously recommended Acronis True Image which is good but a little more powerful than what is needed here. Want to be able to say, click this icon to launch the program then click the big red button says backup. Cheers Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Anti Virus Software
Clam AV X is donation-ware and the latest beta build is Snow Leopard compatible. Even though there may not be danger in the wild for Macs yet it's sometimes good to know that attachments you receive and possibly pass on don't have nasty surprises. Clam does just fine at that. On 02/11/2009, at 8:30 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 01/11/2009, at 7:26 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Dear All What is the current recommendation for anti virus programs for Snow Leopard? My update subscription to X5 expired just prior to updating to SL and I have not renewed as I would like advice from all the experts. Thanks Barry Did your previous subscription ever report the presence and capture of any Mac viruses? I didn't think so, because they don't exist in any real sense. X5 was just sitting there doing nothing useful and consuming processor resources that could have been used for something else. There may come a time when software like this might become necessary on a Mac, but it hasn't arrived yet. Save your money. -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Mob 0403 064 948 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: fonts in safari
Helvetica Fractions will do this sometimes. On 13/10/2009, at 8:24 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Hi, my son downloaded some new fonts, and now the default font is safari is unreadable. We have tried going to preferences, appearances, fonts, but this doesnt change things? Help Hugh This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Exceeding downloads
restricting access based on ethernet ID of individual machines once you've changed all the passwords is pretty effective. Don't forget that many programs and your OS download updates automatically these days. Not saying it's the case here but it's something to consider when you are working out where all the downloads came from. On 10/10/2009, at 7:34 AM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Jon, I would say someone has cracked your password (or seen you type it). I would suggest a few things you can do to 'try' to protect your Network. Of course, turning it OFF when you are not going to be using it is good advice. 1. Change your Password on your ADSL Modem from the default login. 2. Change the Password on your Wireless Network to something more difficult, mix numbers, letters, and punctuation of at least 20 characters. 3. Use WPA2 Wi-Fi Protection 4. Don't broadcast your SSID (Network Name) Have a Closed Network. But with some effort a snooper can learn the name. A closed Network offers protection from the casual observer, many sniffer programs that monitor wireless networks—from commercial down to open-source freeware—can easily see the name of a closed network whenever a legitimate user connects to it. If no one ever connects, it remains hidden, but that’s hardly useful. I would suggest you get this Network protected ASAP ... or Turn it OFF! Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard On 09/10/2009, at 9:24 PM, Jon Davison wrote: Hi everyone. We have a problem with our AAPT setup and wondering if anyone has experience with this? We keep getting messages from AAPT that we are about to, then exceed our download limit and our account will be 'throttled'. We have checked our usage and found that our account is using 750Mb, 450Mb etc when we are asleep! even as we are watching we see that it is being used. It is password protected and are using Airport Extreme. This morning at 1, 2, 3, 4am etc when we are in the land of nod, we are using 1Gb? For instance we were 'unthrottled' on the 7th, but today we are 'throttled' again as we have exceeded our monthly etc... My question firstly is, how do we change the Wireless password, two, how is it possible that our password could have been 'hacked'? We have called AAPT but they insist that of course we are downloading stuff, and no joy there. Should we change the password every week, month? Any help would be much appreciated. KInd regards Jon 'R' Celebrating the Robinson Helicopter A new coffee-table book from Eye in the Sky Productions. Photographed by leading aviation photographer Jon Davison. Due for release late 2008 Based in Western Australia M: 0403 235938 E: j...@eyeinthesky.com.au W: http://www.eyeinthesky.com.au/robinson.html Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.6.1 Snow Leopard -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Keychain?
delete the login keychain found in the Library/Keychains folder of the problem account. The next time you launch Safari it will complain about not finding a keychain and you can choose to reset to defaults. Enter the password for that account and a new keychain is created. That will fix the problem, I see it quite often. If you have lots of stuff in the keychain you don't want to lose you can try keychain first aid first. Sometimes that repairs it too. On 27/08/2009, at 4:01 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Yes, sort of, in safari both my children ( whose accounts have parental controls turned on, but I don't htink this is it) have to hit cancel on the keychain pop up constantly to view web pages, it doesn't happen for the other three accounts on the systems. Best Regards Hugh Griffiths -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2009 3:51 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Keychain? Hi Hugh, On 27/08/2009, at 3:01 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Ronni, your memory is amazing, I thought I might have asked this question before but couldn't find the answer. If I have one user that has admin privileges' is it possible to turn off keychain for other people? NO, they require Keychain to store their passwords to login to their Accounts, their email accounts, iTunes Apple Music Store account. It's worrying me ... why you want to Turn Off Keychain? Are you having a problem in your Account or a Non Admin. Account? Cheers, Ronni -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2009 2:19 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Keychain? Hi Hugh, On 27/08/2009, at 1:37 PM, Hugh Griffiths wrote: Is there a way to turn off keychain? You asked this question before back on 5 November 2006. My answer to you then, and now is the same. Begin Quote from my email: Short Answer to 'Can you Disable Keychain Completely' : No. Apple's OS X requires at least one admin user account tied to a password. See http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106156 for more details. The core philosophy behind Mac OS X is that a user with Admin privileges *needs* to enter his/her password to install or update any software. This is a big part of what makes the Mac so much more secure than other platforms and there is rightly no way around it. End Quote: Or disable it for certain apps, like safari? In Safari, you could try turning OFF AutoFill. Open Safari, choose Preferences Autofill and uncheck all three Items. Cheers, Ronni Best Regards Hugh Griffiths -Original Message- From: wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au [mailto:wamug-ow...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Ronda Brown Sent: Thursday, 27 August 2009 1:05 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Entourage to Mail On 25/08/2009, at 9:45 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi all On my Intel iMac I can receive and send emails using Entourage without a problem and without using a password. However when I switched to Mac Mail the program asks me for a password and does not accept the password which would normally give me access to Westnet server. I have checked at Mail preferences - Accounts which looks OK and phoned Westnet but they could not help. Hi John, 1. Quit Mail if it's running. 2. Open Keychain Access Passwords Internet. 3. Find the password that Mail is having a problem with and delete it, then quit Keychain Access. 4. Restart Mail and enter the password again when asked, and check to the box to save it in the Keychain. It shouldn't ask you again unless your Keychain becomes corrupted in the future. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Re-Hard disk suddenly full
Just saw your message. I guess I would have done my dough! :) On 07/08/2009, at 12:58 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Using Disk Inventory X I discovered a a complete back up of my system. This did not appear in Finder and I am at a loss to know how it occurred. It was dated 1st August (is this Mac's equivalent to April 1st?). Of course this back up immediately doubled my disc usage! Many thanks to all who asssisted Barry iMac 5,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 667 MHz 2GB 667 MHz 150GB HD OS X 10.5.7 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Hard disk suddenly full
Doesn't show the hidden files, hence why you need WhatSize (which is great). I'd put money on it being a log file in /var/log/asl On 07/08/2009, at 12:13 PM, Robert Howells wrote: No doubt using the software shown by Ronni will help BUT am I missing something here ? I would have thought that the very first simplest first check would be double click on drive ( or use finder ) to show the hard drive index Make sure you have the size column as part of the display ( if not showing go View - view options - check show size ) click on size at the head of the size column so you sort by size ( click size again if you want largest at the top ) and see what you have ! ? Bob On 07/08/2009, at 11:56 AM, Barry Sexstone wrote: Thanks Ronni I will try one of these. I am baffled why the sudden increase in disk usage but when I find the culprit it may become clearer. Barry iMac 5,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 667 MHz 2GB 667 MHz 150GB HD OS X 10.5.7 On 06/08/2009, at 3:05 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: On 06/08/2009, at 2:46 PM, Barry Sexstone wrote: For the last few months the available space on my HD has remained fairly static at about half the total (~80GB). I have made no recent downloads of any large applications or other files but suddenly my HD is almost full (147GB). My remote back up disk which has done a full back up followed by daily incremental backups under CCC only shows 70GB used. I have done the obvious deletions of caches and trash and searched through the main folders for very large folders with no avail. Has anyone any thoughts as to what may have suddenly filled my hard drive and is there an easy way to find large files or folders without wading through them all? Regards Barry iMac 5,1 Intel Core 2 Duo 2GHz 667 MHz 2GB 667 MHz 150GB HD OS X 10.5.7 Hello Barry, Download a copy of 'disk inventory X' - it maps your HDD and shows you in a visual sense what exactly is taking all of your space. If its stuff that you don't need/want then you can delete it. It's a good program to have ... and its free. http://www.derlien.com/index.html WhatSize is another you can use to see what is using your HD space. http://whatsize.en.softonic.com/mac Cheers, Ronni 17 MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB OS X 10.5.7 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Slightly OT musing - iPhone: Optus or Telstra Network ?
I have an iPhone with Optus. I do call out support and rack up a few hundred K's a week around the metro. The only drop-outs I experience are in underground carparks. Never anywhere else. I often get reception in areas where my wire's Vodafone mobile doesn't work. No complaints at all about Optus here. On 29/06/2009, at 1:30 PM, Toby Oldham wrote: I think you're right Daniel - only problem is I'm not sure which _is_ more important to me, having not experienced poor network performance*. I tend to infer from conversations with non-Telstra friends that Optus coverage can drop out in strange places all throughout the Perth CBD. I think that would have the potential to bug the hell out of me... I commute via rail every day, 'anyone know if the Midland+Freo line is generally well covered? I'd be using the phone for light websurfing, podcasts and e-mail. Tethering, visual voicemail... Not something I'm currently concerned about. As for speed... I've only used a mobile for web surfing once, so I have low/ almost no expectations with regards to performance; although I think I'd get annoyed by a lack of consistency (above some arbitrary base level). Cheers, T. *Call dropouts and other ye olde-school telecommunications issues. ; ) -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:wa...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Daniel Forsdyke Sent: Monday, June 29, 2009 1:01 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: Re: Slightly OT musing - iPhone: Optus or Telstra Network ? Hi Toby I think it mainly comes down to what is most important to you, the network coverage or the cost. Telstra do have the best mobile coverage area - but how often do you go to areas outside of the other carriers coverage area? Is that worth the extra cost? Also, how do you want to use the iPhone? Telstra do not offer tethering or visual voicemail. Optus don't offer visual voicemail, but do offer tethering at a cost of $9.95 per month. Vodafone offer both visual voicemail and tethering (no surcharge). Do you use the Internet and email functions much? How important is speed for these? Telstra seem to have more consistent speeds. I would love to leave Telstra at the moment as I am paying a premium for which I get little benefit, but besides the $400 early exit fee, I know that vodafone doesn't work in my house, and that optus won't work in the middle of the house. Personally, if I could get vodafone working at home then I would probably go with them as they seem to have the better packages overall. Food for thought... Regards Daniel Forsdyke -- An Apple iPhone creation On 29/06/2009, at 12:17, Toby Oldham toby.old...@screenwest.wa.gov.au wrote: There's around $500 worth of difference (in total, after factoring various bits in) between a Telstra and Virgin(/Optus) 24 month-cap plan. If I get an iPhone via a cap plan, do I choose to save $500 and risk the anecdotal accounts of call-dropouts on the Optus network, or do I cough up the extra dough for Telstra coverage that I'm used to, being a long-time Telstra mobile user (I think mainly because I've been too lazy to properly investigate my options in the past). The Virgin plan offers vastly more call value and download volume, but if I never use more than $200 worth of calls or 300meg a month (on the Telstra plan)... Should I care about benefits that are never going to be realised? 'Think I'll let this conundrum vex me for another hour, then get on with my life. ; ) Cheers, T. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: windows 7 pricing !!!
To be fair you have already paid your Mac Tax by buying the hardware. Microsoft have no such luxury. Not that I care, Mac to the bone here. On 26/06/2009, at 1:34 PM, Roger Kortas wrote: For those who are interested these are the price details for windows 7 these are US prices Home Premium $199.99 Professional $299.99 Ultimate $319.99 upgrades are a tad cheaper!! wow am I glad I am a Mac user :0 Roger Roger P Kortas Haiyan Kortas PH: 61 8 08 9381 4046 Mob: 0413 307995 rkor...@iinet.net.au roger.kor...@wanews.com.au ro...@rkortas.com -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
FileMaker Developer Wanted
Anyone out there want some paid Filemaker work transferring data from Lotus to Filemaker? The Filemaker database already exists and was transferred out to Lotus. Now they want it back in Filemaker (go figure) so it would involved transferring all the data created since the Lotus changeover back in to Filemaker. Our usual developer is on long service so I'm looking for a Pro to get it done. Deadline is mid July. The database will be running (eventually) on Filemaker Server V9. Contact me off-list if you are interested and have the skills. I'll be recommending you to our client and coordinating other aspects of a system upgrade so I have guarantee the work will be done in a timely and professional manner so no wanna be's please. Rob T e a m D i t g i a l http://www.teamdigital.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: FileMaker Developer Wanted
Thanks, I'll give him a call. On 08/06/2009, at 4:06 PM, James / Hans Kunz wrote: talk to Peter Hinchcliffe.. James Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 On 08/06/2009, at 15:25, Rob Findlay wrote: Anyone out there want some paid Filemaker work transferring data from Lotus to Filemaker? The Filemaker database already exists and was transferred out to Lotus. Now they want it back in Filemaker (go figure) so it would involved transferring all the data created since the Lotus changeover back in to Filemaker. Our usual developer is on long service so I'm looking for a Pro to get it done. Deadline is mid July. The database will be running (eventually) on Filemaker Server V9. Contact me off-list if you are interested and have the skills. I'll be recommending you to our client and coordinating other aspects of a system upgrade so I have guarantee the work will be done in a timely and professional manner so no wanna be's please. Rob T e a m D i t g i a l http://www.teamdigital.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au SAD Technic Video Productions, Electronic repairs U3 / 6 Chalkley Pl Bayswater WA 6053 +618 9370 5307,+618 6262 5707, 0414 421 132 http://www.iinet.net.au/~saddas skype: barleeway The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Deleting emails
Try rebuilding the inbox by selecting it and from the mailbox menu at the top choose rebuild. If that doesn't work you can delete the envelope index file in the mail folder and restart mail to force a rebuild. On 05/06/2009, at 8:22 PM, Ian Reid wrote: After reading and reviewing the contents of my inbox for 28/29 May, I filed or deleted all except one lone posting and the postings of four threads. All defied the Delete button and refused to go away. By repeated opening in separate windows and deleting, I reduced the number in the inbox to the lone posting and the initial postings of the four threads, all now as totally blank windows. This is now only a minor nuisance but can these be really deleted. Maybe this is another peculiarity of my copy of Mail ( 3.6 (935/935.3)). Using Mac10.5.7) Ian Reid -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: New strange behaviour _ Techtools? - my 2 cents
I've been doing Mac support for 10 years. In the last 5 years I've had a 12 Powerbook and more recently a 13 Macbook as my main macs plus various towers and iMacs. My laptops rarely get turned off. I close the lid, put them in my bag and they get taken out and opened up several times a day, all day every day. Since Tiger I've rarely done a thing to them other than run (donationware apps) Yasu and Applejack once a month of so. I install and uninstall apps, run ProTools Logic to do recording and mixing plus all my email and web and other business stuff. Disk Warrior and Data Rescue are the only professional paid for apps I occasionally use I wouldn't need Data Rescue if people backed up. Applejack has memtest built in which is the best RAM tester I've used and it's free (by donation). When I build a ProTools, Logic, Final Cut Mac, once I have it the way I like it I image the system drive with Carbon Copy Cloner, and put the image disk somewhere safe. Data I record and create gets stored on another drive backed up to 2 different places. If the system drive fails I put the spare in and make another image. No setup, no re- install apps. I know the same way isn't for everyone and many people enjoy the geekery of things like TechTool and monitoring hardware, it's fun. My experience is that OS X is a very robust operating system and doesn't need a whole lot of maintenance. TechTool in particular seems to create as many problems as it solves. Macs themselves go through different phases of build quality and they break when they break. Always behave as if you could lose your important stuff at any moment, use Time Machine, CCC or SuperDuper to make sure your data is in 3 places at all times and you can't go too far wrong. Just my opinion and your mileage may vary. As has been pointed out even if you only use Parallels from the software bundle that's been discussed you are still in front price-wise. Rob On 03/06/2009, at 7:53 AM, Lloyd White wrote: Thanks Bob, I booted from the Install disk and repaired permissions and that seems to have solved the problem. It listed a large number of permissions that it repaired. But I will certainly uninstall TT Pro. Lloyd On 02/06/2009, at 4:04 PM, Lloyd White wrote: Hi everyone. Like others I installed the new TechTools Pro from the bundle and just checked a few things including repairing the permissions. Nothing else. Now I have problems. I set my iMac - 10.5.7 to sleep when I finish with it but when it wakes up it freezes. On restart all I get is the blue screen. Restart - same result. I get it to start by holding down the Command and full stop key. Then all is ok until I restart. Help! What has happened and what can I do? Lloyd Lloyd You could try going backwards ! The TechTool Pro installer has an Uninstaller as an option ! And if you used TTP to do permissions it may be better to run Leopard disk utility to reset them Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: import entourage addresses to mail
Export the Entourage Address Book as a text file and then import it. On 24/05/2009, at 7:03 PM, John Daniels wrote: Hi all Try as I may I can't figure out how to import addresses from Entourage to Apple Mail. Anyone help? Cheers John -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: kernel panics
Could be hardware. Any PCI cards in it? On 22/05/2009, at 11:57 AM, mince and pud wrote: Hi all I can find lots of discussions on kernel panics on waking from sleep, but nothing on the following. I thought I would try putting my G4 1.25g 10.3.9 to sleep instead of shutting down every night, but on 2 of the 3 times I've tried it I get an immediate kernel panic. Apart from the obvious 'don't sleep it, shut it down' can anyone shed any light? thanks Alastair -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Macs for donation
I know there are some on this list who recycle Macs for worthwhile causes. One of my clients, q Native Title Services organisation has a few eMacs and other Macs they want to give away. Rather than post the contact to the list please email me privately and I will send you the details. Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Unsubscribed
I tried to post a message earlier to WAMUG and was told I'm not subscribed so just went through the process again. I've been on the list for years. Weird. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Unsubscribed
I haven't changed my address. That's why it was so weird. Thanks for replying. On 13/05/2009, at 4:50 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Hi Rob, I had a similar experience when I change my e-mail address from .mac to .me, I can only get posts through when I send them From my .mac address, I presume that this is because I initially subscribed from that address. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com On 13/05/2009, at 3:53 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: I tried to post a message earlier to WAMUG and was told I'm not subscribed so just went through the process again. I've been on the list for years. Weird. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Glitches
It's been my experience that using the terminal in this way doesn't work unless you first enable the root user using Directory Utility and do su in ther terminal to become the super user. In theory issuing sudo before the command is supposed to do the command as the super user but in some cases, specifically the situation below I found it didn't work until I became the super user first. Of course ymmv. Rob On 06/05/2009, at 10:59 AM, tom samson wrote: I have now been down the terminal road as suggested below but the commands below have not changed the permissions on my USB Time machine drive. I am now beginning to panic this is where I have backed up my latest version of a novel I am working on and quite a bit may be lost if I cannot undo this Custom permissions thing. Any other suggestions would be very much appreciated. tom samson On 05/05/2009, at 9:50 PM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi Tom I've come across this once before for a client and a Leopard install as well. It ended up the only way to fix it was using Terminal and unix commands. Took me a couple of google searches to find the right one. But here it is... http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8506675 Basically you need to go into terminal and type (assuming your drive is called My drive) sudo chflags nouchg /Volumes/My drive Hit Return sudo chmod 775 /Volumes/My drive Hit Return Instead of typing the drive name once you've written sudo chflags nouchg You can also then drag the drive icon into the Terminal window and it will write it in for you. Once it's done you can quit out of Terminal, then redo a Get Info on the drive and you should have access to them again. When I did it on the clients computer it took me two goes to get it right as I miswrote a command. I also gave it a restart as well. (Mind you, they had no internet and I was using my iPhone to google the instructions,...) :o) Hope that helps. Kind Regards Daniel On 5/5/09 9:40 PM, tom samson thefr...@bigpond.net.au wrote: I can get into info but the sharing permissions (all three) come up with custom) and I cannot change them they are greyed out I have not seen this before and they are my backup disks tom On 05/05/2009, at 8:26 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 05/05/2009, at 7:57 PM, tom samson wrote: Just had to reinstall Leopard from apple disc for my imac intel 2.8gig and now my backup drives are on the desktop but are locked can't unlock from info can't unlock from Disk drive can't unlock from Disk warrior or Drive Genius any ideas So Tom , If you do the Apple eye , are you saying that when you click on the Lock it does not offer you a window to authenticate by entering your password, and you are unable to check the box ignore permissions on this drive? Further , did you happen to give your mac a new user name when you set it up after the reinstal ? Can you set up a second user with the previous name and deal with the drives that way ? Bob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: First Malware for Mac?
Well it was ZDnet who are well known Microsoft shills. Story made it to Slashdot which lent it at least some credibility for me. .. On 17/04/2009, at 4:41 PM, Dark1 wrote: Read up about this a while ago and came across an article that claimed that the original article, made by a antivirus company, was fabricated to boost sales and that no users on any torrent site had actually been able to locate the bad files that were supposed to exist. I wasn't really interested enough to spend time looking into which article was telling the truth Either the antivirus companies could be lying or the people claiming that they are lying are lying. Pirate at your own risk. Ruben On 17/04/2009, at 10:06 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 17/04/2009, at 9:51 AM, Rob Findlay wrote: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 Before you panic note that you must download the illegal torrent and install it. You can't be affected simply surfing the web or by email. Actually this is old news , and note it applies to people who downloaded PIRATED apple software . Well yeah I said that it only applies to people who download illegal software.. Interesting that it's been reported as being the first real attempt to create a Mac botnet and notes that the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes.' I remember proof of concept trojans but not an actual in the wild, this is actually happening story. You are always at risk with that sort of stuff ! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Formatting of New Flash Memory Stick
Applications/Utilities/Disk Utility On 18/04/2009, at 9:07 AM, Barry Leith Johnston wrote: Good Morning everyone. I have just received a new memory stick and can't remember how to format it. Have system 10.4.10 Imac 7.1 Any ideas ??? Thanks Barry Johnston. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
First Malware for Mac?
http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 Before you panic note that you must download the illegal torrent and install it. You can't be affected simply surfing the web or by email. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: First Malware for Mac?
On 17/04/2009, at 10:06 AM, Robert Howells wrote: On 17/04/2009, at 9:51 AM, Rob Findlay wrote: http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=3157 Before you panic note that you must download the illegal torrent and install it. You can't be affected simply surfing the web or by email. Actually this is old news , and note it applies to people who downloaded PIRATED apple software . Well yeah I said that it only applies to people who download illegal software.. Interesting that it's been reported as being the first real attempt to create a Mac botnet and notes that the zombie Macs are already being used for nefarious purposes.' I remember proof of concept trojans but not an actual in the wild, this is actually happening story. You are always at risk with that sort of stuff ! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Continuing request for help
The Entourage issue in fact weighs toward a proxy issue as Entourage uses http for webdav access to exchange servers. Try creating a new blank location in network prefs and delete any references to proxy servers in your keychain and set them up from scratch. Be sure to copy all the exceptions from the Mac that's working. Make sure DNS is correct too although it's probably assigned via DHCP. On 15/04/2009, at 9:27 PM, Aurora74 wrote: Is it something to do with VPN settings? Unusual network ports? IPv4 vs IPv6? MTU settings? Rob Aurora74 wrote: Hi Rob, Thankyyou for the suggestions. The weird thing is that it worked fine on 10.5.5 - it was cooked by 10.5.6 but I can't figure out what was cooked. Network ports are usual - proxy is using 8080 for HTTP so that is normal. IPv4 is being used. MTU is probably not involved as it is behaving the same in wired connections (blasted thing). What I can't make sense of is why Entourage is failing to connect as well. It makes me think something might have gone wrong with the bind but I can still connect to the AD network. For all I know the apparent proxy issues maybe a red herring. It is looking increasingly like I need to clean install the machine. I just hate admitting defeat - I usually reserve that for Windows. Smiles Aurora -- Laughter is the closest distance between two people. -- Victor Borge -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple Remote Desktop alternative ?
There is a free remote deskop client for windows. http://www.microsoft.com/mac/products/remote-desktop/default.mspx On 15/04/2009, at 1:35 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: A company I use to host a web site and database tells me that to ascertain what disk space I have left on the Virtual Dedicated Server, I need to access the server by using RDP or the Server Console. The host is a Windows based provider. My understanding is that Apple Remote Desktop is an application I could use, but as far as I know that costs, and my requirement is non-essential and infrequent (more a nice to know). Can anyone recommend a freeware application to do what I need? I'm using latest version of Leopard. Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: digilife goes in to receivership?
It's pretty hard to turn a dollar on Macs. The margins are miniscule and they were running a big operation, lots of staff. My only suprise is they lasted as long as they did. On 09/04/2009, at 5:49 PM, Greg Bell wrote: Anyone know why they went belly up? Sent from my iPhone On 09/04/2009, at 16:27, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@mac.com wrote: A friend of mine rang them in a bit of a panic to see where his iMac that they have had in the repair shop for months. The story is that the repair shop is still working, all stock has been sold off (I gather in bulk) and they , obviously, arnt selling anything. Regards, Adrian On 09/04/2009, at 4:22 PM, Rod wrote: They had moved from Mt Hawthorn to Osborne Park not long ago. I believe they are still open though, just being run by the receivers. Rod. Sent from my iPhone On 09/04/2009, at 4:12 PM, Toby Oldham toby.old...@screenwest.wa.gov.au wrote: City store has closed. Empty. Been that way for a couple of weeks? Didn't know the Mt Hawthorn store had closed also... T. -Original Message- From: WAMUG Mailing List [mailto:wa...@wamug.org.au] On Behalf Of Mark Secker Sent: Thursday, April 09, 2009 3:44 PM To: WAMUG Mailing List Subject: digilife goes in to receivership? Just checking the Digilife webside I see that the city store is closing and the banner of the site says Receivers and Managers Appointed bugger mark.sec...@uwa.edu.au Mark Secker (Ba. Bus. IS/IP, ECU) User Support Officer Laboratory Manager Business School IT Services The University of Western Australia - CRICOS provider number 00126G M261 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley 6009 Phone 6488 1855, Fax 6488 1055, -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: HD movies and recorders
You can have a chat to Peter the our resident filmaker who subsidises his addiction to filmaking by working at Team Dig. We are building up a range of Cameras other film gear. 9328 3377. On 08/04/2009, at 7:53 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi Mugs I have just received an email from Elgato advertising their 'Turbo . 264 HD' device that will do ' high quality conversion from HD video files and AVCHD cam corders that can be played on the mac, iphone etc' which does sound really interesting. However, being a complete novice in this field I wouldnt have a clue what a AVCHD cam corder is and I have been contemplating going into HD recording for my whale work. I want to use it for whale identification and behavioural purposes. I have used an early version of iMovie, some years ago, with digitised footage from a small format movie camera and imagine that imovie will be the way to go? Have any of you guys experience with this part of our great Mac experience and can point me in the right direction? Im keen on a HD good quality recorder (that may even have underwater housing capability) with the view to getting footage that I can use on my mac as well as my HD tele? From some of the advertising down here in Busso I have noticed Sony, Canon and JVC etc have some HD recorders.but which one!!? Kindest regards and best wishes for a safe and relaxing Easter. chris -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: archiving emails
This might be worth a look. http://www.versiontracker.com/dyn/moreinfo/macosx/21945 Of course email can simply be dragged from the viewer window into a folder and then deleted. On 24/03/2009, at 6:32 AM, Chris Burton wrote: Hi everyone My Mail inbox is becoming very large, and I am a bit nervous that it may collapse someday. Is there a program available that I can use to archive a part of this (say the oldest couple of years) so that I may still access it if I need to, as I do from time to time have to refer to old emails for various reasons? I am running Mail 3.5 in OS 10.5.6 on a 2.2 dual core macbook pro Thanks for any advice kind regards to all Chris -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: iPhone Problems - Unresponsive Screen During and Immediately After Calls
When mine gets really hot after a long call the screen becomes unresponsive i.e I can't answer calls or unlock the screen. Really really annoying! On 27/02/2009, at 6:12 AM, Adam Lippiatt wrote: Hi all Just wondering if anyone has experienced their iPhone screen locking up (staying black) during or immediately after calls? As you can imagine, it can be quite frustrating. Software has been restored after a return to the provider (guy I dropped it off to said 'ah, the proximity sensor has failed' - service people could not replicate the problem, also noting 'what is this proximity sensor customer is talking about'). I will take it back again today, but I was just wondering if anyone else had come across this problem (googled, seen reports of some screen problems, but this is a bit different as far as I can tell). Thanks Adam _ Adam Lippiatt adam.lippi...@optusnet.com.au 0402 301 706 -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple Mail problem
Try repairing your keychain. Keychain First Aid can be invoked from the Keychain menu in the App. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: I recently set up a secondary E-Mail account with Westnet and for some reason I have to put the password in every time mail starts up, I have checked the Remember this Password box several times to no avail. I have also noticed that in MailPreferencesAccountsPassword field, when I put the password in it goes blank again when I save it. Does anyone out there have a solution to this problem? iMac G5, OS 10.5.6, Mail V3.5. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Apple Mail problem
Delete any reference to the account in keychain and try adding it again now. On 23/02/2009, at 6:46 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote: Thanks. Keychain First Aid says No problems found. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ On 23/02/2009, at 5:29 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: Try repairing your keychain. Keychain First Aid can be invoked from the Keychain menu in the App. Sent from my iPhone On Feb 23, 2009, at 2:10 PM, Adrian Skehan adrianske...@me.com wrote: I recently set up a secondary E-Mail account with Westnet and for some reason I have to put the password in every time mail starts up, I have checked the Remember this Password box several times to no avail. I have also noticed that in MailPreferencesAccountsPassword field, when I put the password in it goes blank again when I save it. Does anyone out there have a solution to this problem? iMac G5, OS 10.5.6, Mail V3.5. Regards, Adrian adrianske...@me.com http://www.skehan.id.au/ -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Timemachine question
Why then does TIme Machine have s setting warn when old backups are deleted? if it doesn't overwrite old backups? On 23/01/2009, at 8:35 AM, Peter Hinchliffe wrote: On 23/01/2009, at 7:09 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi WAMUGers Can TimeMachine keep working when the backup HD is full ie does it overwrite old backups with new backups? I think it's important to point out here that Time Machine is not a true backup system, and has never been promoted by Apple as such. It's a search and recovery tool. It keeps a record (and a physical copy) of every file you've created or modified since you started using it, so naturally it does keep a backup copy of your files. By its nature, it will inevitably fill a drive, at which point the drive has to be replaced (the original will still be honoured by Time Machine). If it were start to overwrite old backups I can't imagine the mayhem which would follow. Time Machine is an incredibly useful tool, but it is not really a substitute for a proper backup utility which would allow several forms of backup strategies. The mirror backup, for example is almost the complete opposite of the incremental backup scheme used by Time Machine in that only those files which were created or modified since the last backup are copied. The original copies on the backup device are replaced, thereby greatly prolonging the storage life of the drive, but of course this approach is useless from an archiving point of view. Have a look at Tri-Backup, an excellent shareware backup utility which gives a very clear explanation of all the schemes it supports. There are many others. PS My Boss wants to buy Toshiba 160 GB and/or 320 GB USB powered tiny drives for our laptop kids. She's got a very good price on them. The down side is a review I read said they write very slowly. Does anyone actually own one and can comment? I can't comment on the Toshiba, but I can't imagine it would be any different from my 160Gb WD Passport. Being a 2.5 drive, it is relative slow (5400 rpm). Add to this the fact that it does not have Firewire (being USB 2.0 only), and yes, it is slower than it's larger 3.5 cousins. I use it mostly on my Macbook Pro for holding my iTunes and iPhoto libraries so I don't have to clutter up the computer's hard drive any more than it is. As such. it performs very well. I wouldn't use it for movie editing or as a backup for HUGE amounts of data (it shows its limitations with multi-gigabyte files), but for every-day use it performs extremely well. Ta Blitto -- Peter HinchliffeApwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482Fax (618) 9332 0913 Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: New macbook pro Firewire 800??
We have a few at work. Not sure if they came bundled with external hard drives or separately. Try ringing sales guys at the office 93283377. Or I'm sure Daniel would know. On 15/12/2008, at 4:48 PM, John Winters wrote: Do you know where you can source these FW 800 to 400 cables in Perth? I was in Osborne Park looking for one, and was told they were not available. __ John Winters Phone +61 8 9244 4564 Fax +61 8 9446 7709 john.wint...@kidsdentist.com.au From: Rob Findlay r...@teamdigital.com.au Reply-To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 13:50:32 +0900 To: User Group Mac User Group Mac WA wamug@wamug.org.au Subject: Re: New macbook pro Firewire 800?? The plug is a different size. you can buy a cable that has a 800 connector at one end and 400 at the other. On 15/12/2008, at 7:12 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Guys If one gets a macbook pro with 800 firewire... 800 is faster than 400? What about the actual plug?? Is it the same? Do the same cables work or is the fitting a different size/shape? Do you need to buy new cables for movie camera etc? Do old/existing firewire hard drives still plug in and work? Ta Blitto -- Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto Black holes suck. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: New macbook pro Firewire 800??
The plug is a different size. you can buy a cable that has a 800 connector at one end and 400 at the other. On 15/12/2008, at 7:12 AM, Rod Blitvich wrote: Hi Guys If one gets a macbook pro with 800 firewire... 800 is faster than 400? What about the actual plug?? Is it the same? Do the same cables work or is the fitting a different size/shape? Do you need to buy new cables for movie camera etc? Do old/existing firewire hard drives still plug in and work? Ta Blitto -- Rod Blitvich - Amy Sam¹s Dad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 0409 681 256 rb...@iinet.net.au http://web.mac.com/blitto Black holes suck. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:wamug-unsubscr...@wamug.org.au
Re: Very Old Disks
David has kindly agreed to take the disks and attempt to transfer the contents to CD on one of his collection of vintage macs. In return hopefully my client will donate his old mac to David's museum. Thank you all for the kind offers. Rob On 08/12/2008, at 5:28 PM, Robert Howells wrote: On 08/12/2008, at 3:39 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: That sounds like a good plan. How amenable would you be to me giving your details to my client to drop around the disks and make some arrangement to make it worth your while to do so? I would pass the disks back to him and let him deal with you directly if you were willing to do that. And if that does not work I have a Mac LC475 which will loadOS 7.1 and have an external SCSI hard drive and/or a scsi cd burner which might still work Can put scsi external hard drive on to a G4 ( PCI scsi card ) and then plenty of options . Bob On 08/12/2008, at 3:11 PM, David Peake wrote: If it's going to be any help I have a collection of early Macs, and could probably get a 7.5 system up and running with a floppy drive and SCSI CD burner. As long as system 7.5 will recognise 400k floppies then the data can either be moved to 1.44 MB floppies or alternatively, CD. Seems straight-forward enough? On 08/12/2008, at 3:03 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Rob, They are probably 400K floppies which Apple support (partially) up to OS 7.6.1. 400K floppies are not supported in Mac OS 8 or later; you must copy the data onto an 800K or 1.44 MB disk. For a very complete description of the limitations of System 7.x in handling 400K floppies http://support.apple.com/kb/TA47951?viewlocale=en_US If you can get a computer to read these floppies, the documents on them should be able to be 'Saved as Rich Text' RTF which could then be read by other operating systems. What system is Kevin running on his Performa 6200? Might be worth a try. Cheers, Ronni On 08/12/2008, at 2:41 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: Thanks Ronni, they are Verbatim HD format. We have an Imation drive here that reads 800k I've also tried them in a Beige G3 with an actual floppy drive. Both these drives read floppies that we have here so I know they work. The disks were written quite recently apparently and still read on the old Mac that created them so it's likely a problem of compatibility. I think the problem is going to be that anything old enough to read them won't have any way of creating a medium that can be read on a modern Mac, except possibly using a SCSI CD burner. My problem is I can't justify how much I would have to charge a client to chase down an old Mac and do the converting so I hoped to find someone here who would take the challenge on a more amateur basis rather than simply saying no to the client. On 08/12/2008, at 2:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Rob, If it was the Macintosh Plus, the machine may have had single- sided (400K) drives. Such disks are only readable in very old Macs. What floppies are they? If you know someone who has an Imation SuperDisk Drive, they can read both 800K and 1.4 MB floppy disks. However, they cannot read 400K floppy disks. So you'll need to find an old Mac if you have a 400K disk to read (kevin's 6200 Performa might be able to). Also ... the floppies could be corrupted. Floppy disks are only rated for data retention for 15 years. Beyond that point, the probability is greater than 50% that data errors will render the data unreadable. Cheers, Ronni On 08/12/2008, at 12:37 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: I have a client with some floppies that were apparently written from a 1986 Macintosh. They contain some word/write documents he wants to convert to a modern format. I've tried plugging in a USB floppy reader on Mac OS X and also putting the disks into the drive of an old G3 Powermac running system 9. In both cases I'm told that the disks can't be read. I don't have any working older Macs left around the place and wondered if there was someone out there that would like to have a crack at reading the disks and converting the data. My client is happy to pay for someone to do this. Cheers Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http
Very Old Disks
I have a client with some floppies that were apparently written from a 1986 Macintosh. They contain some word/write documents he wants to convert to a modern format. I've tried plugging in a USB floppy reader on Mac OS X and also putting the disks into the drive of an old G3 Powermac running system 9. In both cases I'm told that the disks can't be read. I don't have any working older Macs left around the place and wondered if there was someone out there that would like to have a crack at reading the disks and converting the data. My client is happy to pay for someone to do this. Cheers Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Old Disks
Thanks Ronni, they are Verbatim HD format. We have an Imation drive here that reads 800k I've also tried them in a Beige G3 with an actual floppy drive. Both these drives read floppies that we have here so I know they work. The disks were written quite recently apparently and still read on the old Mac that created them so it's likely a problem of compatibility. I think the problem is going to be that anything old enough to read them won't have any way of creating a medium that can be read on a modern Mac, except possibly using a SCSI CD burner. My problem is I can't justify how much I would have to charge a client to chase down an old Mac and do the converting so I hoped to find someone here who would take the challenge on a more amateur basis rather than simply saying no to the client. On 08/12/2008, at 2:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Rob, If it was the Macintosh Plus, the machine may have had single-sided (400K) drives. Such disks are only readable in very old Macs. What floppies are they? If you know someone who has an Imation SuperDisk Drive, they can read both 800K and 1.4 MB floppy disks. However, they cannot read 400K floppy disks. So you'll need to find an old Mac if you have a 400K disk to read (kevin's 6200 Performa might be able to). Also ... the floppies could be corrupted. Floppy disks are only rated for data retention for 15 years. Beyond that point, the probability is greater than 50% that data errors will render the data unreadable. Cheers, Ronni On 08/12/2008, at 12:37 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: I have a client with some floppies that were apparently written from a 1986 Macintosh. They contain some word/write documents he wants to convert to a modern format. I've tried plugging in a USB floppy reader on Mac OS X and also putting the disks into the drive of an old G3 Powermac running system 9. In both cases I'm told that the disks can't be read. I don't have any working older Macs left around the place and wondered if there was someone out there that would like to have a crack at reading the disks and converting the data. My client is happy to pay for someone to do this. Cheers Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Very Old Disks
That sounds like a good plan. How amenable would you be to me giving your details to my client to drop around the disks and make some arrangement to make it worth your while to do so? I would pass the disks back to him and let him deal with you directly if you were willing to do that. On 08/12/2008, at 3:11 PM, David Peake wrote: If it's going to be any help I have a collection of early Macs, and could probably get a 7.5 system up and running with a floppy drive and SCSI CD burner. As long as system 7.5 will recognise 400k floppies then the data can either be moved to 1.44 MB floppies or alternatively, CD. Seems straight-forward enough? On 08/12/2008, at 3:03 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hi Rob, They are probably 400K floppies which Apple support (partially) up to OS 7.6.1. 400K floppies are not supported in Mac OS 8 or later; you must copy the data onto an 800K or 1.44 MB disk. For a very complete description of the limitations of System 7.x in handling 400K floppies http://support.apple.com/kb/TA47951?viewlocale=en_US If you can get a computer to read these floppies, the documents on them should be able to be 'Saved as Rich Text' RTF which could then be read by other operating systems. What system is Kevin running on his Performa 6200? Might be worth a try. Cheers, Ronni On 08/12/2008, at 2:41 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: Thanks Ronni, they are Verbatim HD format. We have an Imation drive here that reads 800k I've also tried them in a Beige G3 with an actual floppy drive. Both these drives read floppies that we have here so I know they work. The disks were written quite recently apparently and still read on the old Mac that created them so it's likely a problem of compatibility. I think the problem is going to be that anything old enough to read them won't have any way of creating a medium that can be read on a modern Mac, except possibly using a SCSI CD burner. My problem is I can't justify how much I would have to charge a client to chase down an old Mac and do the converting so I hoped to find someone here who would take the challenge on a more amateur basis rather than simply saying no to the client. On 08/12/2008, at 2:15 PM, Ronda Brown wrote: Hello Rob, If it was the Macintosh Plus, the machine may have had single- sided (400K) drives. Such disks are only readable in very old Macs. What floppies are they? If you know someone who has an Imation SuperDisk Drive, they can read both 800K and 1.4 MB floppy disks. However, they cannot read 400K floppy disks. So you'll need to find an old Mac if you have a 400K disk to read (kevin's 6200 Performa might be able to). Also ... the floppies could be corrupted. Floppy disks are only rated for data retention for 15 years. Beyond that point, the probability is greater than 50% that data errors will render the data unreadable. Cheers, Ronni On 08/12/2008, at 12:37 PM, Rob Findlay wrote: I have a client with some floppies that were apparently written from a 1986 Macintosh. They contain some word/write documents he wants to convert to a modern format. I've tried plugging in a USB floppy reader on Mac OS X and also putting the disks into the drive of an old G3 Powermac running system 9. In both cases I'm told that the disks can't be read. I don't have any working older Macs left around the place and wondered if there was someone out there that would like to have a crack at reading the disks and converting the data. My client is happy to pay for someone to do this. Cheers Rob -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting to Panther
sounds like a good plan doing a separate install. Classic will run fine on a G5 with Panther. I would start again but I like fresh starts. No reason not to use your sparse image. Saves setting everything up again. On 28/11/2008, at 5:16 PM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: Rob, thanks for your input. Rob wrote: Provided you can boot the Mac from your Panther install CD you can do an archive install. Some of the Library folders will be different from Panther to Tiger and you may experience glitches. I would be inclined to do a clean install (after backing my home folder up) and then putting stuff back where it belongs. Even with this method things like Mail app aren't necessarily going to be backward compatible. So you mail data from Tiger might not open in Panther mail. It might open, just saying this is the sort of thing you will need to consider. Yes I can boot from the Panther CD and I still use Eudora so the email should not be a problem. Maybe I shall leave Tiger on the 160 GB disk and install Panther on the other HD which has an empty 200 GB partition. Then I can see if Panther runs Classic OK on the G5. It was fine on my old G4 but I wanted a machine with USB2 so I can use my iPod. I was told this machine was supplied with Panther but someone else suggested that Classic is not compatible with the G5. I have a sparse disk image of my old (10 GB) 10.3 system partition (also one of my user files) which I made with SuperDuper in Oct last year. Should I use them or should I start again? Diana On 27/11/2008, at 10:18 AM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: I changed computers and operating systems and now have a PowerMac G5 1.8Ghz Dual Processor 1.8GHz 4GB / 160GB running Tiger. I find Tiger very irritating and I am having trouble with my Classic applications. When I bought this machine I was told it would run Panther. I have never tried to load an older OS and I don't know what is entailed. Any advice would be appreciated. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Reverting to Panther
Provided you can boot the Mac from your Panther install CD you can do an archive install. Some of the Library folders will be different from Panther to Tiger and you may experience glitches. I would be inclined to do a clean install (after backing my home folder up) and then putting stuff back where it belongs. Even with this method things like Mail app aren't necessarily going to be backward compatible. So you mail data from TIger might not open in Panther mail. It might open, just saying this is the sort of thing you will need to consider. Rob On 27/11/2008, at 10:18 AM, Diana Graham Stevens wrote: I changed computers and operating systems and now have a PowerMac G5 1.8Ghz Dual Processor 1.8GHz 4GB / 160GB running Tiger. I find Tiger very irritating and I am having trouble with my Classic applications. When I bought this machine I was told it would run Panther. I have never tried to load an older OS and I don't know what is entailed. Any advice would be appreciated. Best wishes to all from Diana -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: defragmented disc
It's likely that your external drive is faster than the internal. You don't mention whether you are on a laptop or Desktop but in general 2.5 laptop drives ( minis) are smaller, spin slower and have smaller caches than 3.5 hard disks. If you are on an iMac or Desktop Mac then it's probably the cache size or maybe spin speed. You can always buy a faster internal drive. On 25/11/2008, at 5:01 PM, mince and pud wrote: Can anyone advise please? I made a clone of my hard disc with superduper on my external firewire onetouch disc, booted from there and everything went faster with the new, tidy defragmented version. Tested it a while to make sure all was well, then erased and restored back to the internal disc, again using superduper, thinking it should be faster still. But it all slowed down again. Could it be that the newness and fastness of the onetouch means it is just faster than my internal disc, despite being less intimately connected? Or did I do something wrong? I've been happily running from the onetouch and backing up to the internal - but fear I may create problems (for instance my webpage home folder is set to be on my internal disc, so if I change something on my clone it doesn't update until I back up - not a big problem now I know about it, but there may be similar things I haven't thought of...) Grateful for the benefit of your wisdom Kind regards Alastair -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mac anti-virus / spyware?
I tried out the new version of Clam AV X. Seems to work like a charm and it's totally free! (donationware). http://www.clamxav.com/ Does all the stuff the big boys do now, schedule updates, email scanning, watched folders, scheduled scans. I tried it on a Macbook with a large archive of email in Eudora format that had been imported to Entourage. Picked up virus's in both databases.. My testing has not been extensive but can't find a reason why why you would go past this at the price. On that note I encourage all my client if they use something free/donation to make a donation. It makes the world go around. I'd be interested to hear feedback from others as it's going into my small list of software that I recommend without reservation to people. Rob On 11/11/2008, at 8:26 AM, Antony Lord wrote: Tell me people - what are you using these days for anti-virus / anti- spyware on your Macs? I was using Virex but it was an awful bit of bloatware that I found thoroughly annoying. Would love to hear what's working in the field! Cheers, Antony. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Apple care
Definitely. Lose a screen or mainboard at 12.5 months with normal warranty it's practically a write off with the cost of a new one. On 11/11/2008, at 3:21 PM, Johann Kienbrandt wrote: It's my first MBP, is it worth to have apple care? Johann -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Live View on Computer
Many of our client are Pros who do this tethered shooting. They all use Capture One. Other manufacturers like Nikon and Canon have their own software for this kind of thing I believe. Perhaps call our office 9328-3377 and talk to one of the camera guys. I'm just the tech support geek :) On 07/11/2008, at 7:33 AM, Edwards Cranston wrote: Hi all, I am new to the Apple and love my Imac. However I do have one problem. I have been managing my website for many years now, taking my photos previously using Live View FlyVideo. This enabled me to connect my camera to the computer with a cord similar to connecting to a camera to a TV, where I could adjust the focus etc on my camera whilst viewing on the big screen of the computer, before I take the perfect photo. I bought the Aperture programme in the hopes that it would enable me to do this type of live view on my computer screen. Unfortunately I have not managed to find a way to achieve this goal. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience with regard to this live view screening on the computer? I would appreciate any help. Thanks in advance. Regards, Donna -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MYOB Backup Query
Did you try changing the destination to a different volume like a flash drive or creating a test user and logging in as the test user? On 07/11/2008, at 12:00 AM, Daniel Kerr wrote: Hi All I've got an interesting one that hopefully someone may have some ideas, or see what I'm missing. I have a client with MYOB version 8 (current version). When they open the program all works correctly. On closing it, it brings up the normal Your backup was x days ago, do you want to backup. You click yes and it appears to go through the motions, but it doesn't actually backup. If you watch the Finder/Desktop very carefully, you can quickly see it create the .zip file (and correct icon) with the name that it should be, but it's almost as if it doesn't finish it. Even changing the location that it's saving it to, you get the same thing. You briefly see it create the file, but it doesn't. (And searching or Spotlight show that the file definitely hasn't been created, and if the saved location has been changed to folder it always remains at zero items. All permissions have been repaired. Checked the MYOB StuffIt Extension v6.7.2 that it uses, and even Created a new one, and got the same results. (Even though Stuffit is up to version 13.something, MYOB still seems to use this older extension.) Checked MYOB forums, googled for answers, but didn't turn anything up. The System is running 10.5.5 with all updates on a MacPro, so all that side of it is correct. Even removed MYOB and reinstalled everything from scratch. Still the same thing happened. Not being a MYOB user myself, this one is strange, so I'm at a loss what it could be. If anyone has any ideas, I'd be most grateful. Thanks in advance. Kind Regards Daniel --- Daniel Kerr MacWizardry Phone: 0414 795 960 Email: daniel @ macwizardry . com . au Web: http://www.macwizardry.com.au **For everything Macintosh** -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: GoldMine database alternative?
We have recently set a number of our clients up on Daylight with good results. The integration with Mail and Address book is excellent. On 07/11/2008, at 12:30 PM, Jude wrote: Wow, this looks excellent! Thanks Andrew - I'll pass it on, and perhaps do a bit of investigating for myself. cheers Jude Jude, Have a look at www.marketcircle.com. Their Daylite product might be the go. They also have billing and other modules. As far as I am aware, they have been around for a while and regularly update their products. I don't use this product myself, but do use the same backend database that they use (which is bullet proof from my experience). Cheers, Andrew Mobile: 0413 759 721 www.perthfootankle.com.au -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: receiving email from localhost
Try this http://cutedgesystems.com/software/PostfixEnabler/ On 29/10/2008, at 3:36 PM, Johann Kienbrandt wrote: hi, I would like to send an email to myself from localhost. I do a regular backup of my databases and email myself to see if the job was running successfully. does anybody know how to configure my local email account to retrieve my own email? regards Johann -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Email servers etc - I need some ideas
Give me a call if you like Steven. I have set up Mac Mail Servers for many of my clients over the years. The most recent version of Mac OS X Server 10.5.5 provides a robust and mature mail service which includes POP, IMAP, authenticated SMTP and Webmail. IMAP does most of what you require. It's important that the IMAP storage be somewhere secure and backed up. I like to put in on a RAID drive and back up to tape for offsite. I also like to have the server running on powerful iron. A Mac Pro or X-Serve makes a fine mailserver. Of course all this starts adding up in price. With SCSI card and a good tape drive it's easy to spend 10K on a mailserver and I've done that for people with those budgets. The last X-Serve I did with an X- Serve RAID and has been running like a train providing mail for 30 users for 2 years now without a hitch. Only ever gets restarted for software updates and often goes months without a reboot. If your budget doesn't run to that kind of level you can make a perfectly reliable server using a second hand G5 or even a Mac Mini provided it's properly backed up. Call me at Team Digital if you like - 9328 3377 Rob On 20/10/2008, at 7:48 PM, Steven Knowles wrote: I'm looking for some advice in terms of setting up a corporate email environment on the Mac platform (but catering for users of other platforms who would be potentially anywhere). I'm quite familiar with pop email accounts, understand the concept of IMAP (I think). But I haven't really been involved with email servers and the like, which I think is probably what I need. I'm familiar with having a standalone Mac, and popping email from my email host (NetRegistry). However I'm now using mailboxes which I need to allow communal access to - potentially several people accessing the communal mailboxes in the future. I also need to have a system whereby although I set up an indovidual user's personal email account, the business still retains copies of those emails. I imagine I could use NetRegistry and set up an IMAP account, but then I am reliant on a 3rd party entirely, including for storage of our email. I'm not totally comfortable with that. So does this mean I need to set up an email server of our own, with accompanying back up solutions? If so, can someone give me an idea of the hardware software requirements, rough idea of costs? Or does it sound like I need to engage a networking specialist to solve all of my problems? Are there any networking specialists amongst wamug people? (I trust a Mac user's advice! :-) Cheers, Steven -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Free Printer A3 Laserwriter
One of my clients (Art on the Move) is giving away their venerable Apple Laserwriter 8500. This is an A3 BW Laser Printer. Has a few quirks but still works. These things are built like tractors, unfortunately you can't get new parts for them and so they get increasingly difficult to service so they have bought a newer printer. Free and pick it up yourself. Please call Paul to arrange 9242 7887. -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Free Printer - Gone
The Laserwriter has found a new home already. thanks! -- The WA Macintosh User Group Mailing List -- Archives - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/archives.shtml Guidelines - http://www.wamug.org.au/mailinglist/guidelines.shtml Unsubscribe - mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
